sinkhole
noun
Meaning
- A hole formed in soluble rock by the action of water, serving to conduct surface water to an underground passage
- A depressed area in which waste or drainage collects.
- A hole in the playfield that rewards the player when the ball is guided into it.
- A domain name server that has been configured to hand out non-routeable addresses for all domains, so that every computer that uses it will fail to get access to the real website.
- An attack which redirects requests - be it network or memory accesses - to a new location defined by the attacker.
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