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Black holing

nouncandidate·updated May 9, 2026

A method typically used by ISPs to stop a DDoS attack on one of its customers. This approach to block DDoS attacks makes the site in question completely inaccessible to all traffic, both malicious attack traffic and legitimate user traffic.

MWE

Classifications

Entity Type

Control85%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

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Black holings
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Black holing's
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Black holings'