| prop. a. | 1. | Of or pertaining to Mars, the Roman god of war, or to the planet bearing his name; martial. |
| prop. n. | 1. | An inhabitant of the planet Mars; - fictional or hypothetical. |
| Noun | 1. | Martian - imaginary people who live on the planet Mars |
| Adj. | 1. | Martian - of or relating to the planet Mars (or its fictional inhabitants) |
| Martian - Packets that turn up unexpectedly on the wrong network because of bogus routing entries. Also a packet which has an altogether bogus (non-registered or ill-formed) internet address, such as the test loopback interface [127.0.0.1]. Such a packet will come back labelled with a source address that is clearly not of this earth. "The domain server is getting lots of packets from Mars. Does that gateway have a martian filter?" |
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