Definition of "bogon" [bogon]

• The imaginary elementary particle of bogosity; the anti-particle to the cluon. (noun)
• An invalid Internet Protocol packet, particularly one sent from an address that is not in use. (noun)

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• "For instance, it will probably take months before addresses out of blocks 1.0.0.0/8 and 27.0.0.0/8 that were given to APNIC show up in actual use-if only to allow firewall administrators to remove those blocks from their "bogon" lists."
• "When a bogon, instrumentality of the night so powerful it could almost be considered a deity, turns up, he deals with it."
• "Bogon: Something that is nonfunctional or stupid, as in, "I'd like to go to lunch with you but I've got to go to the weekly staff bogon.""