Disable MetaCPAN -> CPAN Testers linkage while in degraded state?

[Scott Baker]

It was brought up on IRC that one of the big consumers of the CPT API is 
probably MetaCPAN. This may be contributing to some of the load issues 
we're seeing.

Would it be possible to temporarily disable this traffic while CPT is 
running in degraded mode?

At this point I'll do *anything *to get CPT stable again. The API has 
been down for over 36 hours now and I really need to do some testing.

-- Scottchiefbaker