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• ping [from the submariners' term for a sonar pulse] 1.
  . Slang term for a small network message (ICMP ECHO) sent by a computer to check for the presence and alertness of another....
• ping: [from the TCP/IP acronym `Packet INternet Groper', prob.
  originally contrived to match the submariners' term for a sonar pulse] n....
• 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....
• mail storm n. [from broadcast storm, influenced by `maelstrom'] What often happens when a machine with an Internet connection and active users re-connects after extended downtime -- a flood of incoming mail that brings the machine to its knees.
  See also hairball....
• exploit n. [originally cracker slang] 1. A vulnerability in software that can be used for breaking security or otherwise attacking an Internet host over the network.
  The Ping O' Death is a famous exploit. exploits an exploit in sense 1...
• Ping O' Death n. A notorious exploit that (when first discovered) could be easily used to crash a wide variety of machines by overunning size limits in their TCP/IP stacks.
  First revealed in late 1996. The open-source Unix community patched its systems to remove the vulnerability within days or weeks, the closed-source OS vendors generally took months....
• The vulcan-death-grip ping has been applied.
• Ping-pong players always smash balls.
• blargh /blarg/ n. [MIT; now common] The opposite of ping, sense 5
  an exclamation indicating that one has absorbed or is emitting a quantum of unhappiness....