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A1: The “blackhole” Servers, “blackhole-1.iana.org” and “blackhole-2.iana.org”, are an obscure part of the Internet infrastructure. People are sometimes puzzled or alarmed to find unexplained references to them in log files or other places. This FAQ tries to explain what these servers do, and why you may be seeing them.
