Incident
incident:solana_february_2023_outage
A reported twenty-hour Solana outage associated with unusual block sizes and degraded service.
A reported twenty-hour Solana outage associated with unusual block sizes and degraded service.
“Solana reported a twenty-hour outage on February 25, 2023.”
“They experienced unusual block sizes which, when re-broadcasted through the network, ended up degrading the service.”
| Direction | Predicate | Other entity | Origin | EP |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| outgoing | INVOLVES | Solana recursive transactions | Explicit | 152 |
| outgoing | INVOLVES | Clockwork | Explicit | 152 |
| outgoing | INVOLVES | Geyser plugin | Explicit | 152 |
| outgoing | ASSOCIATED_WITH | Jarett Dunn | Uncertain | 152 |
Solana February 2023 outage INVOLVES Solana recursive transactions
The February 2023 Solana outage involved recursive transactions that repeatedly called other transactions or themselves.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Jarett Dunn EP 152 Details
“you could do recursive transactions”
Solana February 2023 outage INVOLVES Clockwork
The outage occurred in the context of validators running Clockwork and after Clockwork came back up.
Explicit Confidence 97% · Jarett Dunn EP 152 Details
“the entire Solana network went down when clockwork came back up”
Solana February 2023 outage INVOLVES Geyser plugin
Jarett says validators could optionally run the Geyser plugin and its associated threads.
Explicit Confidence 95% · Jarett Dunn EP 152 Details
“they can optionally do this Geyser plug in and get additional money by running these threads”
Solana February 2023 outage ASSOCIATED_WITH Jarett Dunn
Jack says he cannot confirm that Jarett caused the outage, but guesses that Jarett contributed to the problems.
Uncertain Confidence 91% · Jack Rhysider EP 152 Details
“I can’t exactly confirm it was Jarett who took down Solana during that time. My guess is he contributed”