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The Last Dinner Party - stunning on Woodsies last year, and just gone stratospheric since then. Other Stage this year!

Yes missed their first tour which sold out very fast, but very keen to catch up with the Black Pumas

He'd pop out pretty sharpish if he heard Kylie or Stormzy start tuning up downstairs....

Would be fantastic, his live shows are incredible! Finished a tour a few months ago, so I’d say it’s not too likely, but I’d definitely be there if he plays!

They ask for proof now if you do things like that - recent utility / council tax / polling card sort of thing

That's the mane thing

Yes, if See just issued a statement saying that they're aware of the issue, and though they won't be taking action against those who used it this time, in future sales they will detect and void all sales that weren't on the official 'blessed' servers after they've gone through They might well never actually do this, but the threat of it could be enough to put potential host-hackers off (or they could just configure those extra servers to not process Glastonbury tickets and then at least this hack is rendered void)

You can test it yourself here: https://glastonbury.seetickets.com/content/extras

My understanding is that in 2013, there was a typo in the server addresses in the load-balancer, which meant that one of the attached servers was not in use (because its IP address had been typed in wrongly). So when the actual IP address of the second server was discovered, it could be attached to using the hosts file entry and easily bought from

Normally buying a Glasto ticket means waiting for a buying slot on one of a handful of dedicated computers, aka servers, that See make available for this task, and to access them you go through the normal https://glastonbury.seetickets link. These servers, as we know, are heavily overloaded with handling these ticket transactions, so most of us are held at a waiting screen for our opportunity to transact with them. But it appears that See also have some other ticket servers, either held in reserve in case one of the main ones fails, or indeed kept back from the Glasto ticket sale to service any other ticketing tasks for other events, as they wouldn't want to degrade the performance for these events just because the Glasto sale is on at the same time. However, these other servers *can* also sell Glasto tickets, if asked nicely, as they are connected to the same back-end See tickets system. So there is a hack you can do to your own computer's files to make it approach one of these ticking-over servers *as if it were* a dedicated Glasto ticket server, and it appears that under these conditions these spare servers will in fact then process the ticket application successfully. They are far less overwhelmed with requests for tickets, since they are not officially available to Glasto ticket buyers, so they are far easier to get an open ticket-buying slot on. So this 'hosts file' hack directs your request for a Glasto ticket (deposit) to one of these servers instead - and it works! (Not that I used it fwiw)

Yes that was referring back to the 2013 'untargeted server' hosts file hack, and subsequent speculation about there being spare servers in case of any frontline servers falling over, which IIRC hadn't been discovered by that point

I'm no expert at all, but could it be that the IP addresses of a handful of See ticket servers were noted during sales of tickets for other events, and today they were co-opted into buying Glasto tickets?

Auto Refresh Page seems pretty good - but probably any with any decent reviews is fine

But presumably we only really *need* to clear the seetickets.com cookies & cache? Saves all the re-logging in, etc. for other sites?

I did last year when the payment system was a bit f***ed up and Monzo when through swimmingly after my NatWest had screwed up