mh17.jtap.ru does not answer us. The name still resolves, but nothing came back from either protocol when we asked.
The site it used to be
The public record of mh17.jtap.ru is thin. No archive holds a working copy of it, so what is left is the directory entry it was given and what the name does today.
Underneath it was Glype, the same free script the rest of the directory ran.
A directory of free web proxies, workingproxysites.com, took the listing 12 years ago, and that listing counted 226 clicks through to it. Its entry gives the country as United States.
What answers there now
We checked mh17.jtap.ru on 10 September 2026 from our own server in Germany. It answers, and the page is titled "Страница не опубликована".
The replacement
What this site did, a page you browse through, is worth less now than a list you can test. Our free proxy list carries a last-checked time on every entry and re-verifies every few minutes; the checker tests any single address you bring.
None of that makes free proxies reliable. They are shared, so targets have seen the address before, and they hold no session, which breaks logins.
What we could not establish
No public document explains the ending. We can date it and describe it; anything about motive would be invention, and this page prints none.
This is a single reading from a single vantage point. A proxy that turns away data centre addresses would give us the same silence as a proxy that no longer exists. We recheck by 1 January 2027.
Sources
- Internet Archive, capture index for mh17.jtap.ru: no working copy held. Read 2026-09-10.
- workingproxysites.com listing for mh17.jtap.ru, https://workingproxysites.com/recent-proxies.php?start=450, captured 10 September 2026.
- Our own status check of mh17.jtap.ru and of all 8,948 sites listed on the same directory, 10 September 2026.
