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Poison Reverse

nounverified·updated May 9, 2026

Split horizon with poisoned reverse (more simply, poison reverse) does include such routes in updates, but sets their metrics to infinity. In effect, advertising the fact that there routes are not reachable.

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Classifications

Entity Type

Control72%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Sensitivity

—85%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Information Class

—90%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Variants

plural
Poison Reverses
possessive
Poison Reverse's
pluralpossessive
Poison Reverses'