The proof-of-stake (PoS) blockchain network Solana suffered another outage on September 30 and the network restart did not take effect until six hours later on October 1. Solana has suffered a myriad of network outages during the last year, and the blockchain’s latest downtime caused the network’s native currency to slide 4% lower against the U.S. dollar in the last 24 hours.
Solana’s Blockchain Deals With More Downtime – Misconfigured Nodes to Blame for Outages
Solana’s network shuts down again after validator fails to process block misconfigured node within the system. twitter account solana status as on 30 september 2022 wrote,
The Solana network is experiencing an outage and not processing transactions. Developers across the ecosystem are working on diagnosing the issue and to restart the network. More information will be provided as it becomes available.
Following the Solana status update, a proponent of Solana reported that the blockchain would be restarted. “Solana mainnet network will be restarted at slot 153139220, the last confirmed slot,” the person Told, “It appears that a misconfigured node has caused an unrecoverable split in the network. Verifiers, please participate in finding consensus on the relevant data.”
Amid the outage, Solana Status shared instructions on how validators could participate in the restart. “Mainnet Beta Validators: Please follow the cluster restart instructions,” Solana Status stressed. Around 3 a.m. (ET) Solana Status detailed that the cluster restart has been deployed. “Validator operators successfully completed a cluster restart of Mainnet Beta at 7 AM UTC,” Solana Status wrote. The team added:
network operators [and] dapps will continue to restore client services over the next several hours.
Observers Ask: ‘What Good Is a Nakamoto Coefficient of 30 if 1 Misconfigured Node Can Bring Everything to a Halt?’
Solana took a lot of criticism from the crypto community when the outage happened, as the blockchain is nearing its tenth outage since Solana’s inception. The founder of Cyber Capital, Justin Bons, gave the project flak over the most recent outage. “[Solana] has gone down again,” the Cyber Capital founder tweeted. “This is the 8th time [Solana] has gone down in the past year. Blockchains should never have [downtime], yet [Solana] goes down almost every month. This is another consequence of bad design,” Bons added.
Another person asked about an incorrectly configured node issue. “DEF NOT FUD… Honest question… How good is a Nakamoto coefficient of 30 if 1 misconfigured node can stop everything?” individual Asked, Meanwhile, supporters of Solana have turned their backs on the criticism and told people that as long as the engineers persist, the blockchain network will continue to improve.
“Solana will be fine,” one person remarked on Twitter. “As long as the [developers] continue to improve the [blockchain]. That is what’s important. Still bullish on [Solana] for the long term.
