blackhole

  1. Noun.  (alternative spelling of, black hole) , especially in the attributive.
  2. Noun.  (Internet) A place where traffic is silently discarded.
  3. Noun.  (programming) A bit bucket; a place of permanent oblivion for data.
  4. Noun.  (computing) DNSBL, used to block spamming IP addresses – are often called "blackhole lists".
  5. Noun.  (Internet) A blackhole server, a DNS server that handles reverse lookups of invalid IP ranges.
  6. Noun.  (management) A resource sink.

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