Re: ICMP Redirect interpretation

From: WhoCarezWhoIAm (whocarezwhoiam@yahoo.com)
Date: 03/27/02


From: "WhoCarezWhoIAm" <whocarezwhoiam@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 02:24:20 GMT


"bsduser" <daryn_lightblade@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:4b82e88a.0203260619.7c69c311@posting.google.com...
> daryn_lightblade@yahoo.com (bsduser) wrote in message
news:<4b82e88a.0203251929.45dde9f5@posting.google.com>...
> > "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 ?
>
> Umm.. I forgot to add.. I have a direct dial-up account. So the IP I
> have is the same as the one for the host I'm connected to. I think.

that is not what he is saying, your ISP, or whoever you are using to access
the internet has their routing tables mis-configured



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