Is 102.66.161.144:9999 a proxy? Yes, it was.
102.66.161.144:9999 was a public proxy in the HProxy free proxy pool, exiting from South Africa on HERO TELECOMS (PTY) LTD. Across 763 checks it answered 40% of the time, and it has since gone dark (last answered August 25, 2026), so it is not a usable proxy right now.
across all 763 checks
South AfricaHow this one compares
It was one of the good ones, for 9 days.
Every free proxy list quotes an uptime figure. Almost none of them tell you what a normal one looks like, so here is ours: across the 5,845 proxies answering right now, the middle of the pack answers 24.1% of the checks we send it.
40%
of 763 checks answered
Pool median 24.1%. 102.66.161.144:9999 is in the better half.
763
real connection attempts
Each one opens a socket and waits up to 90 seconds. Slow and unreachable look identical if you stop listening early.
9
days from first sighting to last answer
Of the 240,260 free proxies we have watched stop working, half were gone within 25 days of us first seeing them.
August 16, 2026
First listed by our sources
Published as a working proxy by 19 of the public lists HProxy tracks. Being listed is a claim, not a test.
August 25, 2026
Stopped answering
It answered our checks for 9 days before it went quiet.
August 28, 2026
Moved to the permanent record
It left the live pool here. Nothing is deleted: the address keeps this page and stays in the re-check rotation.
September 7, 2026
Most recent re-test
HProxy has opened 763 real connections to this endpoint in total. The sweep reaches every address in the database roughly once every 12 hours.
What normal looks like
Every number above is measured against these two.
A percentage on a proxy list means nothing without the shape of the thing it came from. These are the two distributions the rest of this page compares against, drawn from HProxy's own checks rather than from anybody's marketing page.
How long one lasts
Days from the first time we saw an address to the last time it answered, across 240,260 endpoints that stopped working.
Middle halfMedianFull range
How quickly one answers
Response time on the last successful check, across the 5,845 proxies answering right now.
Continuous monitoring
How HProxy checks 102.66.161.144:9999
HProxy has checked 102.66.161.144:9999 763 times and it answered 303 of those. Every one of those was a real connection attempt, never a lookup.
19 public sources published it
102.66.161.144 appears in 19 of the public proxy sources HProxy tracks. Lists copy from each other constantly, so an address showing up in many of them says a lot about how widely it was republished and very little about whether it ever worked.
Port 9999: Registered port range
This port sits in the middle range, where any ordinary program can listen without special permission. The number itself carries no reserved meaning, which tells you somebody picked it on purpose instead of accepting a default.
Every check is a real connection
HProxy does not read this address off somebody else's list and pass it on. Each check opens a real connection to 102.66.161.144:9999 and gives it up to 90 seconds to answer. Slow is not the same as unreachable, and plenty of working proxies take half a minute to reply. Anything that does not answer in that budget counts as a failure and is recorded as one, which is why the percentage on this page moves rather than sitting at a marketing number. The handshake is attempted across HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS4 and SOCKS5, so a proxy is never missed because we guessed the wrong protocol.
763 checks, 303 answered
That is 40% of the time, measured since August 16, 2026. Every one of those results, successes and failures alike, is a connection HProxy opened itself.
We are still watching for it to come back
Being archived does not stop the testing. 102.66.161.144:9999 answered before, so it is exactly the kind of address that can return, and the sweep works through the whole database and reaches every address roughly once every 12 hours. Its last check was on September 7, 2026, so the next one is due within a day of that. The moment it answers again it is promoted straight back into the live free proxy list, automatically, with no manual step.
This endpoint
The record
Everything HProxy holds on 102.66.161.144:9999, and nothing it does not.
- First seen
- August 16, 2026
- Last checked
- September 7, 2026
- Next check due
- within 12 hours
- Checks run
- 763
- Times it answered
- 303
- Stopped answering
- August 25, 2026
40%
answered 303 of 763 checks
Live free proxies right now
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SOCKS4 · South Africa · 18% · 1023ms
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HTTP · South Africa · 24% · 1935ms
169.255.77.150:8865
HTTP · South Africa · 24% · 2241ms
196.216.133.17:9999
HTTPS · South Africa · 29% · 3329ms
Where this address sits
Right now our free pool holds 10 other free proxies on HERO Telecoms, and 1,076 in South Africa. 102.66.161.144:9999 sits inside that set, so if it is not usable the pages below are where its closest alternatives are.
HERO TELECOMS (PTY) LTD is the 187th largest source of free proxies we have ever measured.
Open proxies cluster rather than spreading evenly across the internet. Hosting providers and cloud platforms run enormous numbers of near-identical servers, so a handful of networks end up carrying a disproportionate share of every public proxy list, including ours. HProxy tracks 221 addresses on AS328471, which is 0.03% of every address in the database and a small corner of the database. That makes it the 187th largest source of free proxies of every network we have ever seen. 10 of them are answering right now, so if this particular address is not usable, the network is a reasonable place to look for one that is.
- Answering now5%
- Answered before4%
- Never answered91%
- 1LimitedNetwork-ASAS213790227,474
- 2SECURED SERVERS LLCAS1943779,187
- 3SECURED SERVERS LLCAS2045446,884
- 4Amazon.com, Inc.AS1650942,316
- 5Cloudflare, Inc.AS1333522,919
- 6M247AS900918,318
- 7Cloudflare, Inc.AS20924214,272
- 8Alibaba (US) Technology Co., Ltd.AS4510212,231
178 networks between
187HERO TELECOMS (PTY) LTDAS328471221
Questions about 102.66.161.144:9999
Is 102.66.161.144:9999 a working proxy?
No, not any more. It was a working public proxy in HProxy's free pool and has since gone dark, last answering on August 25, 2026. We still re-test it periodically in case it returns.
Was 102.66.161.144 ever actually a proxy?
Yes. We ran 763 checks against it and it answered 303 of them, about 40% of the time, over 9 days on our list.
What is the hostname for 102.66.161.144?
102.66.161.144 publishes no reverse DNS record. That is not unusual and it is not suspicious on its own, but it does mean the address volunteers nothing about who runs it, so the network and the check history below are all there is to go on.
Where was 102.66.161.144 hosted?
Lydenburg, Mpumalanga, South Africa, HERO TELECOMS (PTY) LTD (AS328471). It is a residential or ISP address rather than a datacenter one.
Why keep a page for an address that no longer works?
Because "was this address ever a proxy, and when" is a real question. If you are looking at this IP in a firewall log or an abuse report, the dates and the check counts here are the answer. HProxy's public proxy IP list keeps every address it has ever tracked and carries on re-testing them, so deleting this record would throw all of that away.
How many free proxies are on HERO Telecoms?
10 other free proxies are live on HERO Telecoms (AS328471) in our pool right now, alongside 102.66.161.144:9999. Networks that host one open proxy usually host several, which is why the whole AS is worth browsing rather than just this address.
Are there other free proxies in South Africa?
Yes, 1,076 free proxies are exiting from South Africa in our pool right now, answering in 4677ms at the median. If this address is not usable, that list is the place to look for a working one.
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