Solana Says Successfully Completed Cluster Restart After Outage
Solana, a decentralized blockchain built to enable scalable, user-friendly apps, announced on Saturday that its network is back online following an outage on Friday night caused by a misconfigured node that stopped the blockchain from processing transactions. A single misconfigured node took down the entire network – the glitch caused the outage for several hours.
A validator appeared running a duplicate validator instance, which caused the blockchain to fork because validators couldn’t agree on which one was correct. The fork caused an obscure code path that left validators unable to switch back to the main fork. The software and blockchain company Stakewiz, which operates a validator node on Solana, explained the matter online via Twitter social media. Stakewiz suggested the Solana network’s failure to rectify the situation was due to a failed node failover setup.
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