Is 102.66.6.56:9999 a proxy? Yes, it was.
102.66.6.56:9999 was a public proxy in the HProxy free proxy pool, exiting from South Africa on HERO TELECOMS (PTY) LTD. Across 2,327 checks it answered 41% of the time, and it has since gone dark (last answered October 7, 2026), so it is not a usable proxy right now.
across all 2,327 checks
South AfricaHow this one compares
It was one of the good ones, for 42 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 5,637 proxies answering right now, the middle of the pack answers 34.6% of the checks we send it.
41%
of 2,327 checks answered
Pool median 34.6%. 102.66.6.56:9999 is in the better half.
2,327
real connection attempts
Each one opens a socket and waits up to 90 seconds. Slow and unreachable look identical if you stop listening early.
42
days from first sighting to last answer
Of the 397,390 free proxies we have watched stop working, half were gone within 22 days of us first seeing them.
August 26, 2026
First listed by our sources
Published as a working proxy by 54 of the public lists HProxy tracks. Being listed is a claim, not a test.
October 7, 2026
Stopped answering
It answered our checks for 42 days before it went quiet.
October 10, 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.
October 15, 2026
Most recent re-test
HProxy has opened 2,327 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 397,390 endpoints that stopped working.
Middle halfMedianFull range
How quickly one answers
Response time on the last successful check, across the 5,637 proxies answering right now.
Continuous monitoring
How HProxy checks 102.66.6.56:9999
102.66.6.56:9999 has been through 2,327 checks on HProxy's list, answering 948 of them. Few addresses in the database carry a record this long.
54 public sources published it
102.66.6.56 appears in 54 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 102.66.6.56:9999 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.
2,327 checks, 948 answered
That is 41% of the time, measured since August 26, 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. 102.66.6.56:9999 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 October 15, 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 102.66.6.56:9999, and nothing it does not.
- First seen
- August 26, 2026
- Last checked
- October 15, 2026
- Next check due
- within 12 hours
- Checks run
- 2,327
- Times it answered
- 948
- Stopped answering
- October 7, 2026
41%
answered 948 of 2,327 checks
Live free proxies right now
View all102.66.176.109:9999
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HTTPS · South Africa · 29% · 7365ms
196.223.129.21:80
HTTP · South Africa · 72% · 8173ms
102.66.163.87:9999
HTTPS · South Africa · 47% · 8936ms
16.28.101.55:7536
HTTPS · South Africa · 3% · 1013ms
16.28.29.244:15389
HTTPS · South Africa · 10% · 1019ms
Where this address sits
Right now our free pool holds 3 other free proxies on HERO Telecoms, and 277 in South Africa. 102.66.6.56:9999 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 204th 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 222 addresses on AS328471, which is 0.02% of every address in the database and a small corner of the database. That makes it the 204th largest source of free proxies of every network we have ever seen. 3 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 now1%
- Answered before9%
- Never answered90%
- 1LimitedNetwork-ASAS213790227,474
- 2SECURED SERVERS LLCAS19437120,032
- 3M247AS900982,399
- 4SECURED SERVERS LLCAS2045456,868
- 5Amazon.com, Inc.AS1650950,169
- 6Cloudflare, Inc.AS1333522,933
- 7Cloudflare, Inc.AS20924214,281
- 8Alibaba (US) Technology Co., Ltd.AS4510212,395
195 networks between
204HERO TELECOMS (PTY) LTDAS328471222
Questions about 102.66.6.56:9999
Is 102.66.6.56:9999 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 October 7, 2026. We still re-test it periodically in case it returns.
Was 102.66.6.56 ever actually a proxy?
Yes. We ran 2,327 checks against it and it answered 948 of them, about 41% of the time, over 42 days on our list.
What is the hostname for 102.66.6.56?
102.66.6.56 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 102.66.6.56 hosted?
Eastern Cape, 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?
3 other free proxies are live on HERO Telecoms (AS328471) in our pool right now, alongside 102.66.6.56:9999. 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, 277 free proxies are exiting from South Africa in our pool right now, answering in 1592ms at the median. If this address is not usable, that list is the place to look for a working one.
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