Backdoor Entry? Direct to booking form?

[Paul ™]

Well done all who got tickets this way, managed to get a few myself this way.. cheers

x

[ceejaya]

Thank you so much for this tip!

[jamiejc]

Thank you very much Neil.. your the man

Edited October 7, 2012 by jamiejc

[eFestivals]

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.

[jamiejc]

should I have put a # sign before the added text?

Edited October 7, 2012 by jamiejc

[Jack Nottm]

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.

[jeffie]

Thanks for this Neil, 8 grateful people here!!

[king of carott flowers]

If I understand the problem correctly, keeping the host file change, after both servers were correctly referenced at Seetickets actually halved your chances.

[izcuje]

Excellent stuff there Neil.. thank you so much.

[a6l6e6x]

should we change our hosts back now? if so, how?

[5co77ie]

yes just remove the line you added

[absolution101]

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.

[verrymerry]

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

[dan05delaney]

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!

[eFestivals]

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.

[dan05delaney]

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.

[rexclark]

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.

[RussellF]

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 :-)

[Stu H]

See Tickets in Glastonbury sale farce - who'd-a-thunk-it eh?!

What a set of cowboys. That's a schoolboy error.

[Jie Bie]

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

[LondonTom]

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

[rocks1ar]

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

[msutherlandglasto08]

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!!

[Michael@Hebden]

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!!