Tajikistan experienced a disruption to its internet control plane visibility on Thursday morning, lasting approximately 40 minutes. The event began at 08:45 UTC and concluded by 09:25 UTC on August 21. The primary impact was observed on the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), which manages routing information between networks.
Technical Details
The disruption registered a severity score of 692. The affected BGP signal measures the stability and visibility of routing announcements for the country’s IP address prefixes. During the event, the BGP median value dropped by 17% from its observed peak. Other network health indicators, including active probing reachability and traffic volume forecasts, showed minor concurrent fluctuations but no major degradation.
The cause has not been publicly attributed.
Connectivity was reported restored by 09:25 UTC.
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