Off topic, What does "Poison" mean here?

From: Ma Gang (matthen@xxxxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Thu Mar 28 2002 - 00:01:49 GMT-3

   
Dear All,

We may be familiar with "Route Poisoning" or "Poison Reverse". But what does
"poison" mean here? As I imagine, there may be 2 answers

1. The name of a French mathematician. He invented the algorithm, which is
used in Distance Vector routing protocol now.

2. Another expression way of "block".

Which one is correct? Or maybe some other answers?

Matthew Ma

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