Definitions for "Stub area"
Keywords:  ospf, external, route, interarea, asbr
OSPF area that carries a default route, intra-area routes, and interarea routes, but does not carry external routes. Virtual links cannot be configured across a stub area, and they cannot contain an ASBR. Compare to non-stub area. See also ASBR and OSPF.
an area that does not allow the advertisements of external routes
an area which does not receive external routes