Kyrgyzstan Experiences Brief BGP Control Plane Disruption

Kyrgyzstan’s internet control plane registered a brief but notable disruption on Thursday morning, impacting the visibility of network routing information. The event lasted approximately 20 minutes, starting at 09:00 UTC and concluding by 09:20 UTC.

Technical Details

The primary affected metric was the BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) signal, which recorded a severity score of 62. BGP is the protocol that manages how data packets are routed between autonomous systems on the internet; a disruption can affect the global visibility of a country’s IP address prefixes. During the event, the number of visible BGP routes dropped by 3% from its peak. Concurrently, active probing measurements for IPv4 network reachability showed a 21% drop, while a separate backscatter measurement signal indicated a more significant 73% decline in observed traffic.

The cause has not been publicly attributed.

Network conditions were reported as restored following the brief disruption.