tarpit

plural tarpits · alternative tar pit

1. A lake of asphalt formed when subterranean bitumen leaks to the ground surface. Such pits are important in forming fossil fuel reserves; they are also apt to trap passing animals, which become fossilized in the tar.
2. computingA service that purposely delays incoming connections in order to reduce the effectiveness of spamming and similar techniques.

present singular third person tarpits · participle present tarpitting · participle past tarpitted · past tarpitted · alternative tar pit

1. transitivecomputingTo delay by means of a tarpit service.

   If an attack matches a certain pattern, the connection can be tarpitted.

   2004, Steven Andres, Brian Kenyon, Erik Pack Birkholz, Security Sage's Guide to Hardening the Network Infrastructure, page 415