[HN Gopher] What happens when half of the IPFS network is down?
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       What happens when half of the IPFS network is down?
        
       Author : dennis-tra
       Score  : 75 points
       Date   : 2023-05-09 16:13 UTC (6 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (blog.ipfs.tech)
        
       | RobotToaster wrote:
       | >The problematic configuration which was applied manually (i.e.
       | was not based on the default values of kubo-v0.17)
       | 
       | So how did 60% of the network become _manually_ mis-configured?
       | Or does a single company (cloudflare?) make up 60% of the
       | network?
        
         | Lt_Riza_Hawkeye wrote:
         | From my reading, they mis-configured it in their use of the
         | library - using the default value instead would have avoided
         | the problem.
        
         | bombcar wrote:
         | Someone did some digging on various non-Bitcoin crypto coins
         | and found that a huge percentage of the whatever it is they run
         | were just running on AWS.
        
           | sva_ wrote:
           | I guess you mean nodes?
           | 
           | I only found this, which is about eth: https://www.reddit.com
           | /r/Buttcoin/comments/z4e4g1/60_eth_nod...
        
             | bombcar wrote:
             | That looks like it might be what I saw; of course all the
             | tiny cryptos are run on only a few machines, but the cloud
             | providers are huge.
        
             | mattdesl wrote:
             | Worth correcting: 59% of _hosted_ nodes use Amazon, or 37%
             | of all nodes. If you filter out unsynced nodes, about 17%
             | of all nodes are hosted on Amazon.
             | 
             | https://ethernodes.org/networkType/Hosting?synced=1
        
         | whimsicalism wrote:
         | Like the entire application binary was mis-configured. so
         | anyone running the newest update would be misconfigured
        
       | kabdib wrote:
       | "Connection was reset."
       | 
       | Well, that might address the mystery :-)
        
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