Libya experiences brief BGP routing disruption

Libya experienced a brief but significant disruption to its internet routing infrastructure on Monday. The event, centered on the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), lasted approximately 15 minutes starting at 12:30 UTC.

Technical Details

The disruption recorded a severity score of 928. The primary affected signal was BGP, which measures the control-plane visibility of network prefixes. The BGP signal dropped by 62% from its peak during the observation window. Other network health indicators, including active probing for IPv4 reachability and backscatter traffic measurements, showed lesser concurrent deviations.

The cause has not been publicly attributed.

Routing activity was reported restored by 12:45 UTC.