Saudi Arabia experienced a disruption to its internet control plane on Tuesday, September 1, 2026. The event began at 17:10 UTC and lasted for approximately three hours and twenty minutes, ending at 20:30 UTC. The primary impact was observed on the BGP routing system.
Technical Details
The disruption registered a severity score of 5,051. The BGP signal, which measures the visibility of network prefixes in the global routing table, showed a significant drop. The median observed prefix count fell by 25% from its peak during the event window. Other signals, including active probing for IPv4 reachability and traffic volume forecasts, showed minimal to moderate deviations from their expected baselines.
The cause has not been publicly attributed.
Connectivity was reported restored by the end of the observation period.
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