Dusk1983

Got an 8 man safari tent in Sticklinch at about 12.10. Happy.

In all my years of working at both highly professional and completely amateur online companies I have never seen a webserver (apache or nginx) set up with a wildcard domain. That is partly because it’s harder to configure and requires regex knowledge to route properly. You have to really intentionally want to do it, which makes no sense when one of your sites is bleeding Glastonbury FFS. Should be a sackable offence in any event.

Jumping in as someone with experience of setting up and running web servers, the exploit conspiracy theories don’t completely add up. Firstly it is relatively trivial to provision new servers/clusters and/or assign new IP addresses. This could be done less than an hour before the sale. Yes, people who actually have the setup and CLI knowledge to interrogate the server can adapt but any pre-shared IPs or files used by the masses would be voided. Secondly I strongly doubt See would provision servers with a fully wildcard domain name configured, at the very least some sub domains (like Glastonbury) would be excluded via regex, or alternatively every sub domain would be stated explicitly. In other words servers are restricted to certain sites. Lastly regarding bots, the challenge is there is no time to script and test. Nobody is going to try and code it while the sale is in flight, and all See need to do it change a few HTML elements in the DOM to each year to break your crawler anyway.

24/25, only a late addition in his own group missed out. Regarding the group fairness thing, I’ve been in everything from 10 to 40 but they were actual friends. When I hear about groups bigger than that I think it’s essentially a tactical syndicate. to me the first scenario is fine, after all you can’t punish people for having mates, but a syndicate isn’t. A lot of those people won’t even hang out together at the festival.