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Re:Ask HN: Best way to block an EC2-hosted scraper? by mike-cardwell on Sunday January 09, 2011 @01:15PM (#2085950)
Depends on the technology you're using to serve the rss feeds. I'd consider writing something to tail my access logs and automatically update firewall rules when a host generates a certain number of 404's in a certain period of time.
Re:Ask HN: Best way to block an EC2-hosted scraper? by mooism2 on Sunday January 09, 2011 @01:27PM (#2085978)
It shouldn't be too difficult to write a fail2ban rule to do this.