Chad experienced a brief but significant disruption to its internet control plane visibility on Thursday morning. The event, centered on the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), lasted approximately 30 minutes starting around 08:50 UTC.
Technical Details
The disruption registered a severity score of 136. The affected BGP signal measures the stability of routing announcements and withdrawals, which are essential for global networks to see and reach a country’s internet prefixes. A drop in this metric indicates reduced visibility of Chad’s networks on the global internet. During the event, the BGP median value dropped by approximately 5% from its peak. Other network health indicators, including active probing reachability and traffic volume forecasts, showed no significant correlated anomalies during the same observation window from 06:30 to 12:30 UTC.
The cause has not been publicly attributed.
Connectivity was reported restored by 09:20 UTC.
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