Blockchain
Solana is again on-line following an outage on Friday evening attributable to a misconfigured node that stopped the blockchain from processing transactions.
A validator gave the impression to be working a replica validator occasion, which means that as an alternative of the validator producing a single block, every occasion produced one every.
“Not a problem 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 primary fork. Stakewiz steered the Solana community’s failure to rectify the scenario might be because 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 companies.
Regardless of selling itself as a high-performance blockchain, Solana has suffered a collection of outages over the past yr. In September 2021, it went offline for nearly 18 hours.
It additionally froze for about seven hours in early Could till validators restarted, and was knocked offline for about 4 hours in June. The community noticed degraded efficiency in January, March, April and Could.