strikeout
n.a situation where a computer program or a network connection stops working because it cannot find a server or a website. It is like a failure to connect to the internet.
n.a failure to establish a connection with a remote server or network resource, typically resulting in a timeout or error message. Common in computing contexts to describe network unreachability.
“I got a strikeout when trying to access the website.”
“The developer received a strikeout error because the DNS server was down and could not resolve the domain name.”
“After the recent server migration, several automated scripts began returning a strikeout, indicating that the new IP addresses had not yet propagated through the global network.”
Deverbal from strike out.
Etymology adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.