A disruption affecting Tajikistan’s internet control plane was observed on Monday, August 17, 2026. The event, centered on the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), lasted approximately 90 minutes, beginning at 08:45 UTC and concluding by 10:15 UTC. The incident registered a severity score of 98.
Technical Details
The primary impact was recorded on the BGP signal, which measures the stability and visibility of routing announcements for the country’s IP address prefixes. The median BGP visibility count for Tajikistan dropped from a peak of 370 to a low of 365, representing a 1% decline. Concurrently, the ping-slash24 signal, which measures ICMP reachability across active IPv4 network blocks, showed an 8% drop in activity. The merit-nt signal, a proxy for aggregate connectivity based on backscatter measurements, recorded a more significant 44% decline from its peak during the observation window.
The cause has not been publicly attributed.
Network conditions were reported as stable following the event’s conclusion.
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