Ethiopia Experiences BGP Control Plane Disruption Lasting 22 Hours

Ethiopia experienced a significant disruption to its internet control plane visibility beginning early Monday, August 2, and lasting for more than 22 hours. The event, which concluded around 00:30 UTC on Tuesday, primarily affected the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) signal, a key mechanism for routing information exchange between networks.

Technical Details

The disruption was recorded with a severity score of 7,467. The BGP signal, which measures the visibility of network prefixes in the global routing table, showed a sustained deviation from its baseline for the duration of the event. Other network health indicators, including active probing for IPv4 reachability and traffic volume measurements, showed less pronounced deviations during the same period. The cause has not been publicly attributed.

Connectivity was reported restored by the end of the observation window.