blackhole
See also: black hole and black-hole
English
Noun
blackhole (plural blackholes)
- Alternative spelling of black hole, especially when attributive.
- (Internet) A place where traffic is silently discarded.
- (programming) A bit bucket; a place of permanent oblivion for data.
- (computing) DNSBL, used to block spamming IP addresses – are often called "blackhole lists"
- (Internet) A blackhole server, a DNS server that handles reverse lookups of invalid IP ranges
- One way of fighting spam is to use a blackhole list maintained on a blackhole server.
- (management) A resource sink.
Verb
blackhole (third-person singular simple present blackholes, present participle blackholing, simple past and past participle blackholed)
- (transitive, Internet) To redirect (network traffic, etc.) nowhere; to discard incoming traffic.
- 2005, Victor Oppleman, Oliver Friedrichs, Brett Watson, Extreme exploits: advanced defenses against hardcore hacks (page 186)
- Select a nonglobally routed prefix, such as the Test-Net (RFC 3330) 192.0.2.0/24, to use as the next hop of any attacked prefix to be blackholed.
- 2005, Victor Oppleman, Oliver Friedrichs, Brett Watson, Extreme exploits: advanced defenses against hardcore hacks (page 186)
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