dan05delaney Posted October 7, 2012 Report Share Posted October 7, 2012 As an self confessed "IT Geek" can someone explain what happened and why this worked for so many people... my tired, stressed mind can't work it out this early on a Sunday Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tilt Posted October 7, 2012 Report Share Posted October 7, 2012 See mistyped one of their IPs in their DNS so all traffic was going through one server. Adding the other IP to the HOSTS file took you straight to the other, empty server. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eFestivals Posted October 7, 2012 Report Share Posted October 7, 2012 As an self confessed "IT Geek" can someone explain what happened and why this worked for so many people... my tired, stressed mind can't work it out this early on a Sunday See Tickets messed up the DNS entries for glastonbury.seetickets.com (the dns entry is what directs a URL entry to an IP address) - and the result was that all requests were going to one server when they should have gone to two servers. By editing the hosts file it forced the request to go to the unused server - which was why it worked so easily for everyone that tried (cos only those who edited the hosts file were hitting that server). Mid-sale, See Tickets sorted out their dns entries so that it no longer gave an advantage (and probably gave a disadvantage cos more people would have been hitting that server). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
al_coholic Posted October 7, 2012 Report Share Posted October 7, 2012 From what I have seen and read..... It looks like when the site was published it had a typo in the IP address of one of the servers. 192 instead of 194, so all hits were only being directed to 1 server instead of 2. By changing your host file to point directly at the correct IP address I think we were hitting a server that was hardly being used and so we were getting straight in. Seetickets fixed this around 10am by updating their DNS to the correct IP address after this it was harder to get in because the load was being spread. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dan05delaney Posted October 7, 2012 Report Share Posted October 7, 2012 ahh right thanks... wow epic fuck up on see's end, just think how quick it could of sold out Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smash Posted October 7, 2012 Report Share Posted October 7, 2012 Another see tickets farce! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dan05delaney Posted October 7, 2012 Report Share Posted October 7, 2012 Another see tickets farce! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thesecretingredientiscrime Posted October 7, 2012 Report Share Posted October 7, 2012 So if they were all going to one server, that means if it had been running correctly, they could have gone even quicker?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smash Posted October 7, 2012 Report Share Posted October 7, 2012 one line of code... happens to the best coders, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acidstorm523 Posted October 7, 2012 Report Share Posted October 7, 2012 I've got to get on this case next year..i didn't use it, but luckily my friend got through 2 mins before it sold out! Next time, i will listen to you here! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dan05delaney Posted October 7, 2012 Report Share Posted October 7, 2012 So if they were all going to one server, that means if it had been running correctly, they could have gone even quicker?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dan05delaney Posted October 7, 2012 Report Share Posted October 7, 2012 Just not acceptable! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
al_coholic Posted October 7, 2012 Report Share Posted October 7, 2012 In my opinion it is lucky that there are a few IT geeks on here, many of us will have missed out without this trick. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CitizenErased Posted October 7, 2012 Report Share Posted October 7, 2012 I don't believe they did that. It isn't that difficult to correctly copy/type out 4, three digit numbers seperated by a dot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eFestivals Posted October 7, 2012 Report Share Posted October 7, 2012 See tell me that without the DNS cock-up, all the tickets would have sold within an hour. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkskiez Posted October 7, 2012 Report Share Posted October 7, 2012 What infuriates me so much is that it only costs a couple of quid to spin up some Amazon/Rackspace Cloud Servers, you could have 100s of servers online rather than two, for just an hour and process everyones requests seamlessly. (it costs around 15p / hour / server) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grhm Posted October 7, 2012 Report Share Posted October 7, 2012 Luckily I got my tickets the old fashioned way, lots of refreshing pages, but I completely missed this DNS workaround. For next time - how was it discovered, and was there a separate thread for it that i missed while refreshing all those tabs? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkskiez Posted October 7, 2012 Report Share Posted October 7, 2012 I noticed it pretty quickly when i got a webserver on my work intranet coming up instead of the purchase page, so i did a lookup and spotted they had used a private address 192.168 instead of the NTL range 194.168 the other server was on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smash Posted October 7, 2012 Report Share Posted October 7, 2012 for one day a year, estimated unique hits about 2million... 150,000 tickets sold... in 70 mins.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bazza Posted October 7, 2012 Report Share Posted October 7, 2012 If I was into conspiracy theories, I might think that this was on purpose to allow dedicated glasto goers who frequent the efests boards a way of getting tickets................... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jenw Posted October 7, 2012 Report Share Posted October 7, 2012 Happily managed to get tickets without using this. Followed all the instructions including changing to 'run as administrator' but it still wouldn't let me save the changes. Nevermind, worked in the end Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aragorn Posted October 7, 2012 Report Share Posted October 7, 2012 I noticed it pretty quickly when i got a webserver on my work intranet coming up instead of the purchase page, so i did a lookup and spotted they had used a private address 192.168 instead of the NTL range 194.168 the other server was on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ceejaya Posted October 7, 2012 Report Share Posted October 7, 2012 same address but changed the 192 to 194??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarletmist Posted October 7, 2012 Report Share Posted October 7, 2012 Just wondered though -- is it better/worse to sell out in an hour, rather than 3 or 4? Personally I'd rather that they spread it out over a few hours, so that the weak and timid would give up early. [Got mine about 10 minutes before it closed] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deepsky Posted October 7, 2012 Report Share Posted October 7, 2012 I was all done and dusted by 9:04. No joke. Just by doing it the old fashioned way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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