Blackhole vs Wormhole - What's the difference?
blackhole | wormhole |
, especially in the 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
(management) A resource sink.
(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)
a hole burrowed by a worm
* 1593,
(relativity) A hypothetical shortcut between two points in spacetime, permitting faster-than-light travel and sometimes time travel.
As nouns the difference between blackhole and wormhole
is that blackhole is , especially in the attributive while wormhole is a hole burrowed by a worm.As a verb blackhole
is (internet) to redirect (network traffic, etc) nowhere; to discard incoming traffic.blackhole
English
(too many supposedly distinct senses) (Black hole)Noun
(en noun)- One way of fighting spam is to use a blackhole''' list maintained on a '''blackhole server.
Verb
(blackhol)- 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 .
wormhole
English
(wikipedia wormhole)Alternative forms
* worm-hole * worme-hole (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- To fill with worme-holes stately monuments.