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---# Are host name and server name same?

**URL:** [https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40650775/are-host-name-and-server-name-same](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40650775/are-host-name-and-server-name-same)

Are host name and server name same? In the networking (or internetworking) world the term host is generally used for every device which has a network card (NIC - Network Interface Controller) attached to a given network, as it "hosts" this card. The server is in this context a hardware (computer) running a server program - in most cases as a service (Windows) or deamon (UNIX, Linux). This program - as suggests its name - provide some kind of services for other computers (more precisely, for other programs, because they may be on the same computer as the sever program is) named clients. The server listens to clients as they send requests to it. The server serves their requests - it sends back answers. The notoriously known example is an e-mail server and an e-mail client. So the term host is used for both the server's and client's computers as both are hosting a network card. Server name is in this context only a particular case of the host name because both the server and the client are hosts.


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