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In computer network protocol design, inter-server communication is an extension of the client–server model in which data are exchanged directly between servers.cite-ref-1[1] In some fields server-to-server (S2S) is used as an alternative, and the term inter-domain can in some cases be used interchangeably.

• Protocols

• See also

• References

Protocols that have inter-server functions as well as the regular client–server communications include the following:

• IPsec, secure network protocol that can be used to secure a host-to-host connection

• The domain name system (DNS), which uses an inter-server protocol for zone transfers;

• The Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP);

• FXP, allowing file transfer directly between FTP servers;

• The Inter-Asterisk eXchange (IAX);

• InterMUD;

• The IRC, an Internet chat system with an inter-server protocol allowing clients to be distributed across many servers;

• The Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP);

• The Protocol for SYnchronous Conferencing (PSYC);

• SIP, a signaling protocol commonly used for Voice over IP;

• SILC, a secure Internet conferencing protocol;

• The Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP, formerly named Jabber).

• ActivityPub a client/server API for creating, updating and deleting content, as well as a federated server-to-server API for delivering notifications and content.

• SMTP which accepts both MUA->MTA traffic, as well as MTA->MTA, but it is usually recommended that different ports are used for these actions

Some of these protocols employ multicast strategies to efficiently deliver information to multiple servers at once.

• Overlay network

cite-note-11. ↑ citerefzhoufanchengjia2016Zhou, Jingya; Fan, Jianxi; Cheng, Baolei; Jia, Juncheng (2016). "Optimizing Inter-server Communications by Exploiting Overlapping Communities in Online Social Networks". In Carretero, Jesus; Garcia-Blas, Javier; Ko, Ryan K.L.; Mueller, Peter; Nakano, Koji (eds.). Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 10048. Cham: Springer International Publishing. pp. 231–244. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-49583-5_18. ISBN 978-3-319-49583-5.