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