sinkhole

IPA: sˈɪŋkhoʊɫ

(geology) 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.
(pinball) A hole in the playfield that rewards the player when the ball is guided into it.
(Internet) 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.
(computer security) An attack which redirects requests - be it network or memory accesses - to a new location defined by the attacker.

(Internet, transitive) To configure as a sinkhole (domain name server that gives non-routeable addresses).

Examples of "sinkhole" in Sentences

A sinkhole is a natural depression caused by the removal of soil by water.
A sinkhole is a natural depression or hole in Earth's surface, frequently caused by erosion.
The sinkhole is the third to appear in the area in recent months, SABC radio news reported on Monday.
It's your life and your time, and if you want to throw it down the Facebook sinkhole, that is your right.
The El Zacatón sinkhole is on El Rancho Azufrosa, near the town of Aldama in Tamaulipas in northeast Mexico.
Police say the sinkhole, which is about 6-feet wide, turned up late Saturday at a bridge over Bird Creek, near the Wildflower Golf Course.
When Conficker's code was first cracked, security experts snatched up some of these randomly generated domains, creating what are known as sinkhole servers to receive data from hacked machines and observe how the worm worked.