Syria experiences BGP control plane disruption for four hours
Syria experienced a significant disruption to its internet routing control plane on Tuesday, July 22, 2026. The event began at 08:25 UTC and lasted for approximately four hours, ending around 12:30 UTC. The primary impact was observed on the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), which manages…
Syria experienced a significant disruption to its internet routing control plane on Tuesday, July 22, 2026. The event began at 08:25 UTC and lasted for approximately four hours, ending around 12:30 UTC. The primary impact was observed on the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), which manages the global routing table.
Technical Details
The disruption recorded a severity score of 564. The affected BGP signal measures the visibility of a country’s IP address prefixes in the global routing control plane. A drop in this metric indicates a reduction in the number of network paths advertised and visible to the wider internet. The event was isolated to the BGP signal, with other connectivity metrics showing less significant deviations during the same observation window from 06:30 to 12:30 UTC.
The cause has not been publicly attributed.
Connectivity was reported restored by the end of the observation period.
