Morning SOL holders, there’s some bad news for you, but…

Solana [SOL] is back in the news again. But alas, this time for an unpleasant reason. On 1 October, at 6:15 IST, Solana Status, a Twitter handle that is reportedly run by the Solana Foundation, posted a tweet about Solana’s fourth major outage since January.

The tweet stated that the network was experiencing an outage and wasn’t processing transactions. Furthermore, developers across the ecosystem were trying their best to restart the network.

<p lang=«en» dir=«ltr» xml:lang=«en»>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.

— Solana Status (@SolanaStatus) October 1, 2022

An hour later, at 7:07 IST, Solana Status shared a link to a document via its tweet. The document titled “Solana Mainnet-Beta Cluster Restart 1” was for mainnet beta validators. The tweet further asked these validators to follow the cluster restart instructions.

<p lang=«en» dir=«ltr» xml:lang=«en»>Mainnet Beta Validators: Please follow the cluster restart instructions https://t.co/5Ls2W8NtKB

— Solana Status (@SolanaStatus) October 1, 2022

The effort on Solana’s end to fix the issue was met with some resistance. Most validators were unable to follow the restart instructions owing to issues on the network.

For instance, P2 Moo, a game developer, took to Twitter to point out that the network outage was still up and running.

<p lang=«en» dir=«ltr» xml:lang=«en»>SOLANA updates.

Disclaimer – this is from my readings on the main Solana discord, and is my best attempt at synthesizing the information.

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