Syria experiences BGP control plane disruption for nearly two hours
Syria experienced a disruption to its internet control plane visibility on Thursday, August 13, 2026. The event, which primarily affected the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), lasted for approximately one hour and forty minutes. The disruption was recorded in two distinct periods between 10:50 and 12:30…
Syria experienced a disruption to its internet control plane visibility on Thursday, August 13, 2026. The event, which primarily affected the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), lasted for approximately one hour and forty minutes. The disruption was recorded in two distinct periods between 10:50 and 12:30 UTC.
Technical Details
The disruption registered a severity score of 102, with the most significant impact occurring in the second period from 11:40 to 12:30 UTC. The affected bgp.median signal measures the visibility of network routing prefixes in the global control plane. A drop in this metric indicates a reduction in the number of Syrian network routes being advertised to and seen by the global internet.
Other internet measurement signals showed less pronounced deviations during the same observation window. The ping-slash24 signal, which measures ICMP reachability across IPv4 network blocks, recorded a 12% drop from its peak. The merit-nt signal, a proxy for aggregate connectivity, showed a more substantial 38% decline from its peak value.
The cause has not been publicly attributed.
Connectivity was reported restored by the end of the observation period.
