ICMP mapping, questioning legality!!

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Hi,

A couple of days ago our snort detected a NMAP ping to all our public IPS.

I checked the IP with RIPE and contacted the owner of the IP however all he
said was:

'
We are spidering all addresses on the net
for sailory search engine.
We don't attempt to your security

regards
webmaster
'

I remailed them telling them that we dont tolerate such pingsweepeing
however
he emailed again the same email.

I dont know what he ment when he said 'sailory search engine'.

Are they doing anything wrong legalwise? How can i go about it?

regards,

David V


GFI - Security & communications products for Windows NT/2000
http://www.gfi.com

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