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Interesting. Podnews bandwidth doubled on/around Dec 21. Our RSS feed was suddenly doing 150,000 hits a day instead of the usual 22,000 hits. It's gone back to normal now.

One IP address from "Wowrack" hit our RSS feed 132,098 times in one day. Cheers, random fake-browser guy, for hitting me with $20 extra bandwidth.

User-agent was a set of fake browsers - some on Windows running Chrome 119 or 120; some on Mac running Chrome 120. Both browsers came out in late 2023.

Added my RSS feed to the rate-limiting rule. Thankfully, it's static; sadly, it is static on disk, not static on S3.