sinkhole

Meanings

Noun

• 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.

Verb

• To configure as a sinkhole .

Origin

• From Middle English sinkehole, sinkeholl, equivalent to .