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Some home routers (SOHO/Linksys/SMC) refer to a "DMZ host".

These are pseudo DMZ's, as they provide no security between that host and the internal network.

A home router DMZ host is a host on the internal network that has all ports exposed, except those ports forwarded otherwise.

See Demilitarized_zone_(computing).