Re: ICMP Redirect interpretation

From: bsduser (daryn_lightblade@yahoo.com)
Date: 03/26/02


From: daryn_lightblade@yahoo.com (bsduser)
Date: 25 Mar 2002 19:29:46 -0800


"Chuck Swiger" <chuck@codefab.com> wrote in message news:<a7o097$2bbl$4@shot.codefab.com>...
> In comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc bsduser <daryn_lightblade@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > This is the result of pinging www.yahoo.com :
>
> Yahoo is using Akamai's fancy geographicly distributed load-balancing, and
> your upstream router decided to tell you a different route in order to get to
> that IP more efficiently.
>
> -Chuck
>
Hmm.. this doesn't only happen when I ping/traceroute Yahoo.. it
pretty much happens when I ping/traceroute any server. Any time I send
_something_ out, I'll get a redirect packet back in return. What can I
do to stop all these redirects ?



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