Retro on the drand testnet outage of Feb 21, 2024
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TL;DR
- Testnet fell behind for 45 minutes.
- The ceremony was aborted.
- Fallback to non-TLS on some nodes caused the network to fall behind.
- Bugs in migration paths and the state machine blocked the ceremony.
- We will re-run the ceremony asynchronously.
- Testnet has regained stability and is operating normally.