Nowhere vs Blackhole - What's the difference?
nowhere | blackhole |
In no place.
To no place.
, 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)
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
(-)- Nowhere did the rules say anything about popcorn.
- We sat in traffic, going nowhere .
Antonyms
* everywhereDerived terms
* nowhere dense * nowhere dense setDerived terms
* all dressed up and nowhere to go * middle of nowhere * NowheresvilleAnagrams
* English compound determinativesblackhole
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 .