Solana, a decentralized blockchain built to enable user-friendly and scalable applications, Announced on Saturday that its network was back online following an outage Friday night caused by a misconfigured node that prevented the blockchain from processing transactions.

A single misconfigured node brought down the entire network: the failure caused the outage for several hours. Solana informed its users about the outage, but trusted that its developers were on site working to diagnose and fix the problem.

A validator appeared running a duplicate validator instance, causing the blockchain to fork because the validators couldn’t agree on which one was correct.

The fork caused an obscure code path that left validators unable to get back to the main fork. Blockchain and software firm Stakewiz, which operates a validation node on Solana, explained the matter online via Twitter social media. Stakewiz suggested that the Solana network’s failure to rectify the situation was due to a failed node failover configuration.

After working to fix the outage, the Solana developers made the decision to restart the network. The team said it performed the necessary Mainnet Beta reboot at 8am London time. The reboot restarted the network, and Solana then said, “The validators are working properly now. Network operators and dapps will continue to restore customer services for the next several hours.”

Although Solana has described itself as a high-performance blockchain, the network has recently suffered a series of multiple outages. In September of last year, the network went offline for almost 18 hours.

In January this year, Solana witnessed a major blackout that lasted up to 18 hours, the incident drawing the ire of frustrated traders who saw their portfolio values ​​drop without being able to download tokens. In early May, the network froze for around seven hours until the validators were restarted. In June, the network support structure suffered an interruption of more than four hours.

Due to the latest network outage, Solana token prices are down 6.25% in the last 24 hours, according to CoinMarketCap. At the time of writing, the Solana (SOL) price is trading at $32.93 per coin. SOL fell 2.12% in the last 7 days and is 87.33% below its all-time high.

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