Re: Legal? Road Runner proactive scanning.

[Greg <cobaltdude2002 () yahoo com>]

We saw the same thing about a year ago and contacted them. They
basically read to us verbatim what you have below. We now simply block
that particular IP at the firewall. They haven't bothered us since.

--- jbod <for_the_republic () yahoo com> wrote:
> Proactive scanning.  If everyone did this how would
> you ever sort through your logs?  Your IDS would go
> nuts constantly.
>
> Excerpt:  "If your server connects to ours, we reserve
> the absolute right to perform SMTP relay and open
> proxy server tests upon the connecting IP address, to
> ensure that the machine at that IP address cannot be
> abused for malicious purposes."
>
>
> http://securityscan.sec.rr.com/probing.htm
> http://24.30.199.228/probing.htm

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