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• etwork meltdown: n. A state of complete network overload
  he network equivalent of {thrash}ing. This may be induced by a {Chernobyl packet}....
• broadcast storm n. [common] An incorrect packet broadcast on a network that causes most hosts to respond all at once, typically with wrong answers that start the process over again.
  See network meltdown; compare mail storm....
• broadcast storm: n. An incorrect packet broadcast on a network that causes most hosts to respond all at once, typically with wrong answers that start the process over again.
  See {network meltdown}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• etwork meltdown n. A state of complete network overload
  the network equivalent of thrashing. This may be induced by a Chernobyl packet....
• Chernobyl packet: /cher-noh'b*l pak'*t/ n. A network packet that induces a {broadcast storm} and/or {network meltdown}, in memory of the April 1986 nuclear accident at Chernobyl in Ukraine.
  The typical scenario involves an IP Ethernet datagram that passes through a gateway with both source and destination Ether and IP address set as the respective broadcast addresses for the subnetworks being gated between....
• orcerer's apprentice mode: [from Friedrich Schiller's "Der Zauberlehrling" via the film "Fantasia"] n.
  A bug in a protocol where, under some circumstances, the receipt of a message causes multiple messages to be sent, each of which, when received, triggers the same bug....
• Core meltdown - message aborted.
• ARMM n. [acronym, `Automated Retroactive Minimal Moderation'] A Usenet cancelbot created by Dick Depew of Munroe Falls, Ohio.
  ARMM was intended to automatically cancel posts from anonymous-posting sites....
• Memory Overload Error ... Meltdown Evide