Backdoor Entry? Direct to booking form?

[bakergrove]

PLEASE can someone explain how to do this on a MAC?

Step by step as I'm a dumbass

Thanks

[poolieboydave]

Thanks Neil - its definately been locked down now but I managed to get my tickets sorted. Lets keep our fingers crossed that the different confirmation email address doesn't come back to bite us!!

Thanks again

David

[windy_miller]

I already had my tickets before I saw this, but I can confirm that the IP address Neil gave is a valid see tcikets address...

$ dig glastonbury.seetickets.com

; <<>> DiG 9.9.1-P3 <<>> glastonbury.seetickets.com

;; global options: +cmd

;; Got answer:

;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 47543

;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:

; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4000

;; QUESTION SECTION:

;glastonbury.seetickets.com.    IN      A

;; ANSWER SECTION:

glastonbury.seetickets.com. 47  IN      A       194.168.202.202

glastonbury.seetickets.com. 47  IN      A       194.168.202.201

;; Query time: 16 msec

;; SERVER: 194.168.4.100#53(194.168.4.100)

;; WHEN: Sun Oct  7 10:11:59 2012

;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 87

You can see in the ANSWER section there are two IP addresses that glastonbury.seetickets.com can resolve to. The first one is 194.168.202.202, which is the one that most people will end up using as it is the first one returned by the DNS lookup. Hacking your hostfile to use 194.168.202.201 instead means you end up using the quieter server as most people will end up on the first one.

Edited October 7, 2012 by windy_miller

[bombfrog]

Neil, I flippin' love you.

I managed to get tickets for my group using this but it no longer seems to be working so I don't think people trying it now will be so lucky.

That guy that mentioned the reverse IP lookup was correct thou. I wanted to check it wasn't a scam before I entered all my details onto somebody's dodgy server and it did seem to be owned by a junior school in manchester on virgin media. However, the reverse IP lookup did say that 8 sites were hosted on that IP, including seetickets.co.uk which is registered to See Group so I figured it was legit.

[windy_miller]

BTW if you want to check the DNS entries yourself, go to http://www.geektools.com/digtool.php and type glastonbury.seetickets.com into the "Domain" box and click the "Dig" button.

[efcfanwirral]

thankyou so much Neil! Worked for me immediately.

As with others im a little concerned about the confirmation email issue, though my mate has just got through and checked without using this trick and our reg numbers are sorted so...

[jimbob1983]

Unfortunately it's now plastered all over Twitter, so that will be the end of that

[Englishdragon]

Finally got through. The minute my laptop with the host file changed stopped working my main laptop got straight through.

This is why I fucking love this website, see you all for the party of a lifetime next sumer!!!!

[kidsfears]

Can someone please upload a screenshot of how the hosts edit should look please... it wont work for me

[glittery_hanna]

I dont get this at all tried 4 times to do this can anybody do it for me either via remota assistance or i will give you details thank you very much x

[glittery_hanna]

I dont get this at all tried 4 times to do this can anybody do it for me either via remota assistance or i will give you details thank you very much x

[Gosusan]

its not working now (sad face)

[loverlea]

Great stuff thanks neil and the others. Had tried it but was saying I wasnt admin but I am had to change permissions! It worked and took me straight to booking page and I have a ticket

Before that I couldnt even get on the holding page! Passed tip onto a friend but it didnt work for him

[loverlea]

BTW if you want to check the DNS entries yourself, go to http://www.geektools.com/digtool.php and type glastonbury.seetickets.com into the "Domain" box and click the "Dig" button.

[DL50]

Not working for me at all

[imcle5]

after having no pages did this and worked straight away. this is first time i have got in october usually had a long wait till april but not this year thanks so much

[Davey_T]

Just fixed it. Change the ip address to 194.168.202.202 instead of 194.168.202.201

[flyleen]

send me your number i'm in

[loverlea]

Can someone please upload a screenshot of how the hosts edit should look please... it wont work for me

[TimmyP's Mobile Disco]

OMG so worked - thank you Neil you are a legend. Pint of cider at the efest meet is yours if you want one. And thanks wacko for making it simple to do for dunderheads like me!

[chilla]

Cheers, worked a treat...

Just wanted to add to wha others said, that ordinarily changing you hosts file because of what someone told you in a forum would be a BAD thing to do! Opening yourself up to a big old scam but desperate times eh?

I got confirmation through and it would have had to been a bleeding elaborate scam to have copied the entire registrations database over!

Good luck all

[DL50]

not working at all for me

[flyleen]

The page is open...1st person to call i will get tx 07779229731

[darkskiez]

@windy_miller

The reason this worked is that seetickets admins had typoed their DNS entries initially,

The had put in a bogus ip address 192.168.202.201 into their DNS instead of 194.168.202.201

When fixing the issue they inadvertantly had removed the working 194 address ->

dig +trace glastonbury.seetickets.com

[snip]

seetickets.com.  172800 IN NS ns1.ststat.com.

seetickets.com.  172800 IN NS ns2.ststat.com.

;; Received 119 bytes from 2001:503:a83e::2:30#53(2001:503:a83e::2:30) in 45 ms

glastonbury.seetickets.com. 60 IN A 192.168.202.201

;; Received 60 bytes from 194.168.202.197#53(194.168.202.197) in 22 ms

Now they have put both entries in again.. so theres no point

glastonbury.seetickets.com. 60 IN A 194.168.202.202

glastonbury.seetickets.com. 60 IN A 194.168.202.201

;; Received 76 bytes from 194.168.202.197#53(194.168.202.197) in 15 ms

[Neville Street]

Do we think it is still working? I just changed mine back.

Do you just add the line under the example and save? Or do you delete everything and have a file called HOSTS with just the one line in it?

I guess the # on the other lines are like REM in the olden days of when I did O level computers