Whether there is a bear market or not, Solana consistently experiences a certain number of outages. The community is disappointed but unsurprised that the Solana network has experienced yet another outage this year.
The Solana Status site, run by the Solana Foundation, posted that the network was “experiencing degraded performance”, on September 30, 2022, at 23:01 UTC.
On October 01 at 00:46 UTC, the update went on that the Solana network is experiencing an outage and not processing transactions, and the developers are diagnosing the issue and restarting the network.
An hour later, the network asked the mainnet beta validation to follow the given cluster restart instructions.
A Solana validator behind Stakewiz.com tweeted about the event, saying, “It appears a misconfigured node caused an unrecoverable partition in the network.”
They further noted that a validator was running a duplicate validator instance. As a result, some validators saw one block while the others saw the others when it was their turn to produce a block, and they were unable to agree on which block was correct.
According to Stakewiz, the Solana codebase was intended to address the problem, but for some reason, it resulted in an irreversible partition or fork. According to them, the incorrect setting was unintentional and was “probably a failed node failover setup”.
The Solana mainnet network will be restarted at slot 153139220 which was the last confirmed slot. Solana was down for 6 hours at the time of writing, and the reboot is now complete.
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