Like Daniel said you can use robots.txt to block spiders, but this won't guarantee exclusion of URLs showing up in search results. You could use x-robots-tag in the server headers. Generate a 403 every time user-agent hits the sub domain.
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Like Daniel said you can use robots.txt to block spiders, but this won't guarantee exclusion of URLs showing up in search results. You could use x-robots-tag in the server headers. Generate a 403 every time user-agent hits the sub domain.