Cardano recovers from an outage on 50% relay and block-producing nodes

Cardano stake pool operators (SPO) and users have actually been reporting at least half of the nodes for the network briefly went offline over the weekend.

According to a Jan. 22 post shared on the Telegram SPO for Input Output Global, the engineering and research fintech behind the Cardano blockchain, an abnormality caused 50% of Cardano nodes to detach and restart.

Last night during the abnormality on the #Cardano network, the whole network did not go down. There was a short period of destruction. A lot of nodes affected had with dignity recovered. No network reboot was required. pic.twitter.com/FupQXk2otV!.?.!— Rick McCracken DIGI(@RichardMcCrackn)January 22, 2023″This appears to have been activated by a transient anomaly causing two responses in the node, some detached from a peer, others tossed an exception and rebooted,

“the post stated, describing the sudden disruption.Despite a temporary destruction, the Cardano network recuperated without external intervention. As discussed in the post, “such short-term issues” were considered in the node design and agreement

and”the systems acted precisely as expected.”During the abnormality, which happened in between block 8300569 and 8300570, block production apparently kept going however was slowed for a few minutes and the” impact was low, comparable to the hold-ups that take place during regular operations.””

Most nodes instantly recovered, depending upon the SPO of option.”At the time of writing, the source of the abnormality and resulting node disconnections and restarts are still under investigation.”We’re now investigating the root cause for this anomalous habits and carrying out more logging procedures together with our regular monitoring treatments,

“stated the main announcement.Related: Cardano to introduce new algorithmic stablecoin in 2023 Tom Stokes, the co-founder of Node Shark and a Cardano SPO, reported in

a Jan. 22 post that more than half of the listed nodes were affected.He likewise shared a chart showing where the network sync fell from 100%to slightly above 40 %for over 300 reporting nodes.A few hours ago over half of all #Cardano nodes went offline. This is why decentralization matters. pic.twitter.com/NXDVyKy8ep!.?.!— Tom Stokes(@eUTxO_pro)January 22, 2023 According to Stokes chart, the network sync recovered back to around 87%

after the drop however did not right away return to its previous level at 100%. Another SPO reported comparable problems to Stoke in a Jan. 22 post, but declared “Some SPOs saw no effect. “”Others had relays and BPs restart. SPOs, Devs, and IOG remain in Discord debugging atm.

No source yet,”they said.