Paul ™ Posted October 7, 2012 Report Share Posted October 7, 2012 Well done all who got tickets this way, managed to get a few myself this way.. cheers x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ceejaya Posted October 7, 2012 Report Share Posted October 7, 2012 Thank you so much for this tip! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamiejc Posted October 7, 2012 Report Share Posted October 7, 2012 (edited) Thank you very much Neil.. your the man Edited October 7, 2012 by jamiejc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eFestivals Posted October 7, 2012 Report Share Posted October 7, 2012 should I have put a # sign before the added text? nope, that would have made it a comment, and it would have had no effect. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamiejc Posted October 7, 2012 Report Share Posted October 7, 2012 (edited) should I have put a # sign before the added text? Edited October 7, 2012 by jamiejc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Nottm Posted October 7, 2012 Report Share Posted October 7, 2012 For future reference, how do you find out the ip address and the test to write into the hosts file..? thanks for the info everyone, i got through normally with about 20 mins to go luckily, only person in our group to ever get past the reg page without it crashing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeffie Posted October 7, 2012 Report Share Posted October 7, 2012 Thanks for this Neil, 8 grateful people here!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
king of carott flowers Posted October 7, 2012 Report Share Posted October 7, 2012 If I understand the problem correctly, keeping the host file change, after both servers were correctly referenced at Seetickets actually halved your chances. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
izcuje Posted October 7, 2012 Report Share Posted October 7, 2012 Excellent stuff there Neil.. thank you so much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a6l6e6x Posted October 7, 2012 Report Share Posted October 7, 2012 should we change our hosts back now? if so, how? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
5co77ie Posted October 7, 2012 Report Share Posted October 7, 2012 yes just remove the line you added Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
absolution101 Posted October 7, 2012 Report Share Posted October 7, 2012 To those asking if this will work in future re-sales etc: the answer is no, the only reason it worked this time is because See cocked up the DNS entry so that one server was being completely unused, which is the one we managed to access by altering our host files. Unless they do this again in the future, the trick will not work again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
verrymerry Posted October 7, 2012 Report Share Posted October 7, 2012 (edited) Thanks Neil! We changed the host file and we got through straight away - top marks for you sir! Also - and I hope others have noticed - eFestivals stood strong throughout the whole ordeal! Sent you a donation, not much but should buy you a pint at the Ciderbus! Edited October 7, 2012 by verrymerry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dan05delaney Posted October 7, 2012 Report Share Posted October 7, 2012 Thanks Neil! We changed the host file and we got through straight away - top marks for you sir! Also - and I hope others have noticed - eFestivals stood strong throughout the whole ordeal! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eFestivals Posted October 7, 2012 Report Share Posted October 7, 2012 yeah a few moments where it was a bit slow but nothing major.... Hey Neil what were the stats like? anywhere close to highest amount of site traffic ever? highest ever is 6,200-ish. I'm not sure what it peaked at today, but i saw 5,570 on here at one point, and I'm fairly confident it got more busy shortly after that ... so I guess it must have got pretty close to that. But the very big difference today is that the server load was hugely less than it's been on previous occasions (due to recent upgrades) - no one will have seen the 'busy' message, and while things slowed down a little at one point it never got too bad at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dan05delaney Posted October 7, 2012 Report Share Posted October 7, 2012 highest ever is 6,200-ish. I'm not sure what it peaked at today, but i saw 5,570 on here at one point, and I'm fairly confident it got more busy shortly after that ... so I guess it must have got pretty close to that. But the very big difference today is that the server load was hugely less than it's been on previous occasions (due to recent upgrades) - no one will have seen the 'busy' message, and while things slowed down a little at one point it never got too bad at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rexclark Posted October 7, 2012 Report Share Posted October 7, 2012 highest ever is 6,200-ish. I'm not sure what it peaked at today, but i saw 5,570 on here at one point, and I'm fairly confident it got more busy shortly after that ... so I guess it must have got pretty close to that. But the very big difference today is that the server load was hugely less than it's been on previous occasions (due to recent upgrades) - no one will have seen the 'busy' message, and while things slowed down a little at one point it never got too bad at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RussellF Posted October 7, 2012 Report Share Posted October 7, 2012 Thought I'd replied but can't see it. Nel, sir, you are a genius. Got tickets for me, my Son and Brother in law. Will be my Son's first festival, and our second. He'll be 15, I'll be 40. Will gratefully buy you a few pints of your poison. Cheers :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stu H Posted October 7, 2012 Report Share Posted October 7, 2012 See Tickets in Glastonbury sale farce - who'd-a-thunk-it eh?! What a set of cowboys. That's a schoolboy error. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jie Bie Posted October 7, 2012 Report Share Posted October 7, 2012 (edited) Don't understand why See felt the need to set the confirmation emails to appear to be delivered from an email address belonging to glastonbury.co.uk , especially when that site isn't even connected to the festival! Reading the various threads on here it seems I wasn't the only person spooked by that one! Especially when many email programs will detect that the sender isn't actually authorised to send mail from that domain and may flag the message up as suspiscous! Neil - Next time you speak with your contact from See I would say a suggestion might be for them to set the confirmation email to come through from a standard seetickets.com address. Edited October 7, 2012 by Jie Bie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LondonTom Posted October 7, 2012 Report Share Posted October 7, 2012 Seemed to cope well for me bit slow....but worked at the time you tweeted about the hosts file change so I can't argue with that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocks1ar Posted October 7, 2012 Report Share Posted October 7, 2012 Thanks Neil this worked a treat, was having no luck before you posted this, which makes me a little worried about next year!! This year will be my 14th Glasto....haven't missed one since 1997 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msutherlandglasto08 Posted October 7, 2012 Report Share Posted October 7, 2012 Unfortunately by the time I worked out how to use this backdoor it was all over twitter (even though I spotted Neil's message as soon as it was posted - my crap IT skills lol) and never managed to get on . Worse still was that my brother got on and put registration numbers in and one of them was invalid as when it had been texted through to us a 9 had been put in as an 8 - gutted!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael@Hebden Posted October 7, 2012 Report Share Posted October 7, 2012 Unfortunately by the time I worked out how to use this backdoor it was all over twitter (even though I spotted Neil's message as soon as it was posted - my crap IT skills lol) and never managed to get on . Worse still was that my brother got on and put registration numbers in and one of them was invalid as when it had been texted through to us a 9 had been put in as an 8 - gutted!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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