Papua New Guinea registers brief BGP routing disruption

Papua New Guinea experienced a brief disruption to its internet routing infrastructure on Monday. The event, which lasted approximately 15 minutes, was characterized by a degradation in the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) control plane.

Technical Details

The disruption occurred between 14:40 and 14:55 UTC on August 3. The primary affected metric was the BGP median signal, which recorded a severity score of 113. The BGP signal measures the stability and visibility of routing announcements for a country’s IP address prefixes. A concurrent, smaller drop was observed in the ping-slash24 signal, which measures ICMP reachability across active IPv4 network blocks. The cause has not been publicly attributed.

Connectivity was reported restored following the brief event.