  In Phys. Rev. D 79, 064016 (2009) it was claimed that quasinormal modes which
any stationary, spherically symmetric and asymptotically flat black hole emits
in the eikonal regime are determined by the parameters of the circular null
geodesic: the real and imaginary parts of the quasinormal mode are multiples of
the frequency and instability timescale of the circular null geodesics
respectively. We shall consider asymptotically flat black hole in the
Einstein-Lovelock theory, find analytical expressions for gravitational
quasinormal modes in the eikonal regime and analyze the null geodesics.
Comparison of the both phenomena shows that the expected link between the null
geodesics and quasinormal modes is violated in the Einstein-Lovelock theory.
Nevertheless, the correspondence exists for a number of other cases and here we
formulate its actual limits.
