What is Internet vs. Intranet servers?
An Internet server is a server specifically set up for access by users across the Internet. An Intranet server is a server set up by a company for access across the local network for its employees, but traditional Internet technology is used. Most typically an Intranet server is a Web server. Obviously there are Web servers that are both — typically these are found at universities. Sometimes an Intranet server is set up, but due to misconfiguration either at the firewall or by some other means, the server’s documents can be accessed via the Internet. These are rare and hard to find, but they can be gold mines — especially if the IS department has decided to place all of their procedures online. On an even rarer occassion one will be indexed by a spider, so that during a Lycos search you discover a page or two from this server. This DOES happen. I have personally found over a dozen via AltaVista. Many companies are so eager to embrace new Internet technology that security is either an
