Swaziland Experiences BGP Control Plane Disruption

Swaziland experienced a disruption to its internet control plane visibility on Wednesday, July 9, 2026. The event began at 00:50 UTC and lasted for approximately 3.7 hours, concluding by 04:30 UTC. The primary impact was recorded on the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) signal.

Technical Details

The disruption registered a severity score of 652. The affected BGP signal measures the control plane visibility for internet routing prefixes, indicating a reduction in the number of routes being advertised to the global internet. During the event, the BGP route count dropped by 3% from its peak, averaging 266 visible routes.

Other network telemetry signals showed concurrent but less severe fluctuations. The ping-slash24 signal, which measures ICMP reachability across IPv4 network blocks, recorded a 5% drop in reachability. A separate backscatter measurement signal, which serves as an aggregate connectivity proxy, showed a complete loss of signal during the event’s peak.

The cause has not been publicly attributed.

Connectivity was reported restored by the end of the observation window.