| (networking) | sorcerer's apprentice mode - (From Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's "Der
Zauberlehrling", via the Walt Disney film "Fantasia") 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. Used especially
of such behaviour caused by bounce message loops in
electronic mail software. Compare broadcast storm, network meltdown, software laser, ARMM. Der Zauberlehrling. |
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