Black holing
nounid
1680·updated May 9, 2026candidate
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
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Entity Type
Control85%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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unclassified
Information Class
unclassified
Variants
- plural
- Black holings
- possessive
- Black holing's
- pluralpossessive
- Black holings'
Framework definitions
Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) IT Examination Handbook Infobase, Glossary1 senseview framework →
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- 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.
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