Belize experienced a brief disruption to its internet control plane visibility on Monday, August 25. The event lasted approximately 15 minutes, beginning at 18:15 UTC and concluding by 18:30 UTC. The disruption was isolated to the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) signal.
Technical Details
The event recorded a severity score of 63. The affected BGP signal measures the stability and visibility of routing announcements for the country’s IP address prefixes on the global control plane. During the disruption, the median number of visible prefixes dropped by 4% from its peak. Other key connectivity metrics, including active probing reachability and traffic volume forecasts, showed no significant deviations during the observation window from 14:30 to 20:30 UTC.
The cause has not been publicly attributed.
Connectivity was reported restored within the observation period.
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