blackhole

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Definition von blackhole im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch

A resource sink

A bit bucket; a place of permanent oblivion for data

DNSBL, used to block spamming IP addresses – are often called "blackhole lists"

Alternative spelling of black hole, especially in the attributive

A place where traffic is silently discarded

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.

Etymologie

(noun.) 1968. black +‎ hole