Nigeria Experiences BGP Control Plane Disruption Lasting Eight Hours
Nigeria experienced a significant Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) control plane disruption on August 5-6, lasting for more than eight hours. The event began at approximately 16:25 UTC on August 5 and concluded around 00:30 UTC on August 6. The disruption was characterized by a sharp…
Nigeria experienced a significant Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) control plane disruption on August 5-6, lasting for more than eight hours. The event began at approximately 16:25 UTC on August 5 and concluded around 00:30 UTC on August 6. The disruption was characterized by a sharp reduction in the visibility of network routing announcements.
Technical Details
The primary affected metric was the BGP median signal, which recorded a severity score of 625. This signal measures the control plane visibility of internet protocol prefixes, indicating how many routes were being advertised to the global internet. The event lasted for 8.1 hours. Other network health indicators, including active probing for IPv4 reachability and traffic volume forecasts, showed lesser concurrent deviations during the observation period.
The cause has not been publicly attributed.
Connectivity was reported restored by the end of the observation window.
