Operation Manual

KEN! – Glossary 109
“www.avm.de”? The DNS server takes care of the assign-
ment of text names to numerical IP addresses and the for-
warding of data to the corresponding computers. Another
computer in the Internet which has only the symbolic name
of its destination (e.g., www.avm.de), can send a request to
this server to obtain the corresponding IP address.
E-mail
The term E-mail (= Electronic Mail) designates a type of com-
munication in which information (texts, images, graphics,
etc.) are transmitted electronically from a sender to a recipi-
ent. E-mail functions are supported both by local networks
(see LAN) and by the worldwide Internet. E-mail service is a
service in the Internet.
FTP
The File Transfer Protocol between a computer and an FTP
server. FTP allows access to data archives of any kind in the
Internet.
Gateway services
KEN! proxy works as a gateway to Internet applications like
Telnet and home banking with HBCI. KEN! translates the re-
quests arriving at its IP address to defined ports into re-
quests for defined servers in the Internet. The Internet appli-
cations of the KEN! Users register the IP address of the KEN!
Service PC as their server.
HBCI
The Home Banking Computer Interface is a standard accept-
ed by the leading credit institutions to create a unified basis
for online banking.
HTTP
The Hypertext Transfer Protocol, in combination with the
World Wide Web, has become one of the most important In-
ternet protocols. Its primary task is to transmit HTML docu-
ments from WWW servers to a user's WWW browser. HTTP
can also be implemented as a protocol for general forms of