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• 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....
• etwork meltdown: n. A state of complete network overload
  he network equivalent of {thrash}ing. 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....
• etwork meltdown n. A state of complete network overload
  the network equivalent of thrashing. This may be induced by a Chernobyl packet....
• 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....
• Nightmare File System: n. Pejorative hackerism for Sun's Network File System (NFS).
  In any nontrivial network of Suns where there is a lot of NFS cross-mounting, when one Sun goes down, the others often freeze up....
• meltdown, network n. See network meltdown.
• Godzillagram: /god-zil'*-gram/ n. [from Japan's national hero] 1.
  A network packet that in theory is a broadcast to every machine in the universe....
• breath-of-life packet: [XEROX PARC] n. An Ethernet packet that contains bootstrap (see {boot}) code
  periodically sent out from a working computer to infuse the `breath of life' into any computer on the network that has happened to crash....