service

<networking, programming>

Work performed (or offered) by a server. This may mean simply serving simple requests for data to be sent or stored (as with file servers, gopher or http servers, e-mail servers, finger servers, SQL servers, etc.); or it may be more complex work, such as that of irc servers, print servers, X Windows servers, or process servers.

E.g. "Access to the finger service is restricted to the local subnet, for security reasons".

Last updated: 1997-09-11

Nearby terms:

server-side include ♦ service ♦ serviceability ♦ Service Access Point

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