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Nowhere vs Blackhole - What's the difference?

nowhere | blackhole |

As nouns the difference between nowhere and blackhole

is that nowhere is no particular place, noplace while blackhole is , especially in the attributive.

As an adverb nowhere

is in no place.

As a verb blackhole is

(internet) to redirect (network traffic, etc) nowhere; to discard incoming traffic.

nowhere

English

Adverb

(-)
  • In no place.
  • Nowhere did the rules say anything about popcorn.
  • To no place.
  • We sat in traffic, going nowhere .

    Antonyms

    * everywhere

    Derived terms

    * nowhere dense * nowhere dense set

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • No particular place, noplace.
  • They went on a cruise to nowhere .
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  • Derived terms

    * all dressed up and nowhere to go * middle of nowhere * Nowheresville

    blackhole

    English

    (too many supposedly distinct senses) (Black hole)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • , 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
  • One way of fighting spam is to use a blackhole''' list maintained on a '''blackhole server.
  • (management) A resource sink.
  • Verb

    (blackhol)
  • (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)
  • 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 .