Oman experienced a brief connectivity degradation on Friday

Oman experienced a brief but significant degradation in internet connectivity on Friday, July 25, 2026. The disruption began at 14:40 UTC and lasted for approximately 50 minutes, ending by 15:30 UTC. The primary impact was observed in the reachability of network prefixes across the country.

Technical Details

The event recorded a severity score of 3,214. The most affected metric was the ping-slash24 signal, which measures the reachability of IPv4 network blocks via active probing. This signal showed a 74% drop from its peak value during the event. A complementary backscatter measurement, which serves as a proxy for aggregate connectivity, also registered a 65% decline. The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) control plane, responsible for routing announcements, showed minimal change, indicating the disruption was likely confined to the data forwarding plane. The cause has not been publicly attributed.

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