leaf site n.,obs.
Before pervasive TCP/IP, this term
was used of a machine that merely originated and read Usenet news
or mail, and did not relay any third-party traffic. It was often
uttered in a critical tone; when the ratio of leaf sites to
backbone, rib, and other relay sites got too high, the network
tended to develop bottlenecks. Compare backbone site, rib sit
of routers than of host machines this term has largely fallen out
of use.
Before pervasive TCP/IP, this term
was used of a machine that merely originated and read Usenet news
or mail, and did not relay any third-party traffic. It was often
uttered in a critical tone; when the ratio of leaf sites to
backbone, rib, and other relay sites got too high, the network
tended to develop bottlenecks. Compare backbone site, rib sit
of routers than of host machines this term has largely fallen out
of use.
Related:
- leaf site: n. A machine that merely originates and reads USENET
news or mail,
and does not relay any third-party traffic. Often... - backbone site n.,obs.
Formerly, a key Usenet and email
site,
one that processes a large amount of third-party traffic... - rib site n.
[by analogy with backbone site] A machine
that has an on-demand high-speed link to a backbone site and
serves as a regional distribution point for lots of third-party
traffic in email and Usenet news.
Compare leaf site, backbone site... - rib site: [by analogy with {backbone site}] n. A machine that
has an on-demand high-speed link to a {backbone site} and serves
as a regional distribution point for lots of third-party traffic in
email and USENET news.
Compare {leaf site}, {backbone site}. -- The AI Hackers... - backbone site: n. A key USENET and email site; one that processes
a large amount of third-party traffic,
especially if it is the home site of any of the... - blinkenlights /blink'*n-li:tz/ n.
[common] Front-panel
diagnostic lights on a computer,
esp. a dinosaur. Now that dinosaurs are rare, this... - slashdot effect n.
1. Also spelled "/. effect"; what is
said to have happened when a website being virtually unreachable
because too many people are hitting it after the site was mentioned
in an interesting article on the popular
Slashdot news service.
The term is quite widely used by /. readers, including... - wormhole /werm'hohl/ n.
[from the `wormhole'
singularities hypothesized in some versions of General Relativity
theory] 1.
[n.,obs.] A location in a monitor which contains the... - fuzzball n.
[TCP/IP hackers] A DEC LSI-11 running a
particular suite of homebrewed software written by Dave Mills and
assorted co-conspirators,
used in the early 1980s for Internet protocol testbedding...
From the same category:
- since time T equals minus infinity adv.
A long time ago;
for as long as anyone can remember; at the time that... - blink vi.,n.
[now rare] To use a navigator or off-line message
reader to minimize time spent on-line to a commercial network
service (a necessity in many places outside the U.S.
where the... - go flatline v.
[from cyberpunk SF, refers to flattening of
EEG traces upon brain-death] (also adjectival `flatlined').
1. To die, terminate, or fail, esp. irreversibly... - semi-infinite n.
See infinite... - zombie n.
[Unix] A process that has died but has not yet
relinquished its process table slot (because the parent process
hasn't executed a wait(2) for it yet).
These can be seen in ...
