So, here I am on a holding page for Glastonbury tickets. Anybody else there too? Hoping the Rolling Stones were bluffing their denial that they’re playing a farewell at next years festival. The rumour alone was enough to make me register like a fool! Now, refresh, refresh, refresh for four hours or so.

you wouldn’t catch me there as a punter. luckily i get to take my truck right into the middle of site and get the whole festival off work to enjoy it with a fridge, a real bed, and my own toilet and shower in our own secure field 😀

it would be wicked if the stones are playing but usually glastonbury line-up rumours turn out to be just rumours

On the holding page too. Have been many times but the rumor of the stones was enough to make us try once more. Even if they don’t play it will be one hell of a party..

The stones have said many times that the appearance fee is not enough

I’ve never been and never really fancied it. But to see the Stones would be one off the Bucket list. Jealous of your perks there Jonah. Living the dream!

Can’t even get the holding page here!

My page has refreshed to a ‘Bad Request’ back to square one.

You’ve got it wrong.
My mrs is looking at the holding page, and i’m about to go out on my bike 😀

Keep those browsers spinning ……..

All the ‘holding page’ does is reload the same URL after 20 seconds so if you get it you might as well f5

“This site is currently receiving very high volumes of traffic. You’re seeing this holding page because we’ve reached the maximum number of request we are able to handle at one time.

You are being held at this holding page until a space on the booking page becomes available.”

All the ‘holding page’ does is reload the same URL after 20 seconds so if you get it you might as well f5

Good spot. You’re right, I’ve just looked at the JavaScript that does it. It’s just a location.reload method.

Just got through, entered registration details and then it sent a bad request! It had better not be all this shit for Nicki Minaj. Or whatever she’s called!

I can’t believe in this day & age we still get these problems…

They should just make it a lottery

domain name is resolving to a strange set of 192.168.x.x addresses. Is that what others are seeing? Never got to a holding page, just “Oops! Google Chrome could not connect to glastonbury.seetickets.com”

They should just make it a lottery much bigger… and free

FTFY

Yes going in with my ISP (sky) is failing way too quick they must be doing something

Cos I’m still getting the holding page on my work vpn

Yunki shut up you old hippy

domain name is resolving to a strange set of 192.168.x.x addresses. Is that what others are seeing?

194, not 192.

Pinging glastonbury.seetickets.com returns [194.168.202.201]. This appears to be assigned to a junior school, which makes no sense to me. But anyway.

Adding a line in your HOSTS file for this address seems to speed up the process somewhat.

Go to c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc and open the HOSTS file in Notepad. Add a line at the bottom as follows. W7 / Vista users will need to run Notepad as Administrator.

194.168.202.201 glastonbury.seetickets.com

Caveat emptor. This looks genuine, but there’s always a risk when doing this sort of thing.

Don’t forget to edit it back when you’ve done.

We were on the details page for an hour. Eventually it went through. We have got 8 but still trying to get the final 3. Good luck chaps..

Cougar – Member
domain name is resolving to a strange set of 192.168.x.x addresses. Is that what others are seeing?
194, not 192.

No, 192:

ping glastonbury.seetickets.com
PING glastonbury.seetickets.com (192.168.202.201): 56 data bytes
Request timeout for icmp_seq 0
Request timeout for icmp_seq 1
Request timeout for icmp_seq 2
Request timeout for icmp_seq 3

I’m not expecting to get replies to the ping, but the address is weird. I think they’ve goofed with their DNS entries.

There’s something wrong there. As above, I was resolving to the same IP but 194 rather than 192.

Try emptying the resolver cache (ipconfig /flushdns) and ping it again? There’s nothing in your HOSTS file redirecting it is there?

I think they’ve goofed with their DNS entries.

Ah. That could make sense; maybe they’ve recently changed it and the tech who did it typed 192 from muscle memory. Presumably it was quickly corrected but not everything’s caught up. That might explain the IP range showing as being assigned to a junior school.

194 here

After refreshing a million times, we have just got tickets. I bid you all good luck.

Cougar – Member
There’s something wrong there.

Try emptying the resolver cache (ipconfig /flushdns) and ping it again? There’s nothing in your HOSTS file redirecting it is there?

It’s a mac so you use dscacheutil -flushcache, but yes. Thought maybe my ISP was caching it, but have tried changing to 8.8.8.8 and getting the same thing…

I reckon they’ve cocked their DNS records up this morning and the fix hasn’t propagated properly yet.

I can’t believe in this day & age we still get these problems…

why would a company invest shitloads of cash on hardware that would only be used anywhere near capacity one day out of 365. doesn’t make sense financially.

Bizzare.

C:\Users>nslookup
Default Server:  SkyRouter.Home
Address:  [redacted]

> server 8.8.8.8
Default Server:  google-public-dns-a.google.com
Address:  8.8.8.8

> glastonbury.seetickets.com
Server:  google-public-dns-a.google.com
Address:  8.8.8.8

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:    glastonbury.seetickets.com
Addresses:  194.168.202.201
          194.168.202.202

>

They trust Seetickets. This is their specialist field. Therefore, they should invest to make the whole process both smoother and fairer.

acidchunks – Member
I can’t believe in this day & age we still get these problems…
why would a company invest shitloads of cash on hardware that would only be used anywhere near capacity one day out of 365. doesn’t make sense financially.

They could host the booking page on Amazon, Google or Microsofts arrays.

My DNS has just refreshed! 😀

naboo:~ retro$ nslookup glastonbury.seetickets.com
Server: 192.168.1.254
Address: 192.168.1.254#53

Non-authoritative answer:
Name: glastonbury.seetickets.com
Address: 194.168.202.202
Name: glastonbury.seetickets.com
Address: 194.168.202.201

Got my tickets too!! Dont really care who’s there. There is always something good to watch regardless of taste. Its all about the experience no?

Yeah. Authoritative answer:

> server ns1.ststat.com
Default Server:  ns1.ststat.com
Address:  194.168.202.197

> glastonbury.seetickets.com
Server:  ns1.ststat.com
Address:  194.168.202.197

Name:    glastonbury.seetickets.com
Addresses:  194.168.202.202
          194.168.202.201

> server ns2.ststat.com
Default Server:  ns2.ststat.com
Address:  194.168.131.164

> glastonbury.seetickets.com
Server:  ns2.ststat.com
Address:  194.168.131.164

Name:    glastonbury.seetickets.com
Addresses:  194.168.202.202
          194.168.202.201

Their ns1 nameserver isn’t the quickest to reply, mind.

Sold out 😡

GRRR resale it is then

It’s called progress. Makes things a lot easier than years ago when you could just turn up with a bottle of JD and a block of resin and blag your way in… 8)

why would a company invest shitloads of cash on hardware that would only be used anywhere near capacity one day out of 365. doesn’t make sense financially.

Ordinarily I’d agree; however, in this case it’s not just one day a year, it’s every time there’s a ‘big’ concert announced. There’s room for improvement certainly, I reckon.

Tickets here … after 2011’s dissapointment I’m off on the bike to celebrate 😀

Went a couple of years back and it was great. Put the holding fee down last year and had a host of cancellations from people in our party so pulled out. Looks like it was a bit of a washout last year though.

When you add the costs up, £200+ for ticket, parking, say £150 for food and booze, petrol and other associated costs it works out to around the same amount as a week’s riding somewhere nice.

I know what I’d rather be doing!

£200+ for a ticket?

I’m oot.