Solana back online following latest network outage
Blockchain
Solana is again on-line following an outage on Friday evening brought on by a misconfigured node that stopped the blockchain from processing transactions.
A validator seemed to be operating a replica validator occasion, that means that as a substitute of the validator producing a single block, every occasion produced one every.
“Not a difficulty in itself and one thing the community ought to deal with,” stated software program and blockchain firm Stakewiz, which operates a validator node on Solana, in a Twitter thread.
This triggered the blockchain to fork as a result of validators couldn’t agree on which one was appropriate. This fork triggered an obscure code path that left validators unable to change again to the principle fork. Stakewiz advised the Solana community’s failure to rectify the state of affairs may very well be as a result of a failed node failover setup.
A choice was made to restart the community from 153139220, the final confirmed slot. The restart was accomplished at 7 a.m. UTC. Dapps are working to revive providers.
Regardless of selling itself as a high-performance blockchain, Solana has suffered a collection of outages over the past 12 months. In September 2021, it went offline for nearly 18 hours.
It additionally froze for about seven hours in early Might till validators restarted, and was knocked offline for about 4 hours in June. The community noticed degraded efficiency in January, March, April and Might.
