ICMP redirect

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Thu May 26 10:27:30 PDT 2005


On 25 mei 2005, at 17:55, Charles Swiger wrote:

> On May 25, 2005, at 11:46 AM, FreeBSD questions mailing list wrote:
>
>> Lately i get a lot (really a lot) of these errors:
>>
>> icmp redirect from 127.0.0.1: <my outside IP> => 127.0.0.1
>>
>> I have no idea where they come from and better how to get rid of  
>> them...
>> Can anyone point me in a direction to solve this problem?
>>
>
> You are probably trying to access services on the localhost via the  
> name of your outside IP, rather than via localhost.  I would gather  
> than you are running NAT somewhere.
>
> You can set up /etc/hosts so that name refers to the inside IP  
> addr, or set up split DNS.  Another way would be to add an alias of  
> your outside IP on the machine...
>
> -- 
> -Chuck
>
thanks
Arno
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