Is use Perl blocking my scraper?

Aristotle on 2006-02-19T10:29:37

For a few days now, the Planet use Perl feed I have been offering has not updated. I hadn’t noticed, because it’s not particularly engineered to report failures.

I finally noticed the conspicious absence of new entries and checked whether it really had been that silent for the past couple of days. Of course it hadn’t. So I hit up the server and started investigating. Lo, use Perl returns 403 Forbidden regardless of which tool I use and which URL I attempt to fetch. It appears to be telling any connection from that IP to sod off.

I don’t know what’s going on, but if you were relying on my feed, now at least you know can’t anymore for the time being.