Is 109.203.204.249:1080 a proxy? Yes, it was.
109.203.204.249:1080 was a public proxy in the HProxy free proxy pool, exiting from Russia on PJSC "Rostelecom". Technical Team. Across 238 checks it answered 22% of the time, and it has since gone dark (last answered June 14, 2026), so it is not a usable proxy right now.
across all 238 checks
RussiaHow this one compares
It was one of the good ones, for 31 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 3,424 proxies answering right now, the middle of the pack answers 15.9% of the checks we send it.
22%
of 238 checks answered
Pool median 15.9%. 109.203.204.249:1080 is in the better half.
238
real connection attempts
Each one opens a socket and waits up to 90 seconds. Slow and dead look identical if you stop listening early.
31
days from first sighting to last answer
Of the 192,073 free proxies we have watched stop working, half were gone within 28 days of us first seeing them.
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.
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Continuous monitoring
How HProxy checks 109.203.204.249:1080
HProxy has checked 109.203.204.249:1080 238 times and it answered 53 of those. Every one of those was a real connection attempt, never a lookup.
6 public sources published it
109.203.204.249 appears in 6 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 1080: SOCKS
Port 1080 is the officially registered home of SOCKS, which forwards any kind of connection instead of only web traffic. An address offered on 1080 is being presented as a general purpose tunnel, not just a web proxy.
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 109.203.204.249:1080 and gives it up to 90 seconds to answer. Slow is not the same as dead, 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.
238 checks, 53 answered
That is 22% of the time, measured since May 14, 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. 109.203.204.249:1080 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 24 hours. Its last check was on August 9, 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 109.203.204.249:1080, and nothing it does not.
- First seen
- May 14, 2026
- Last checked
- August 9, 2026
- Next check due
- within 24 hours
- Checks run
- 238
- Times it answered
- 53
- Stopped answering
- June 14, 2026
22%
answered 53 of 238 checks
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Where this address sits
Right now our free pool holds 5 other free proxies on PJSC "rostelecom", and 195 in Russia. 109.203.204.249:1080 sits inside that set, so if it is not usable the pages below are where its closest alternatives are.
PJSC "Rostelecom". Technical Team is the 64th 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 734 addresses on AS12389, which is 0.12% of every address in the database and a meaningful pocket of the database. That makes it the 64th largest source of free proxies of every network we have ever seen. 5 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 before14%
- Never answered86%
- 1LimitedNetwork-ASAS213790227,266
- 2Amazon.com, Inc.AS1650925,671
- 3Cloudflare, Inc.AS1333522,185
- 4SECURED SERVERS LLCAS2045419,475
- 5Cloudflare, Inc.AS20924214,136
- 6Alibaba (US) Technology Co., Ltd.AS4510211,642
- 7GloboTech CommunicationsAS3666611,542
- 8ChinanetAS41348,342
55 networks between
64PJSC "Rostelecom". Technical TeamAS12389734
Questions about 109.203.204.249:1080
Is 109.203.204.249:1080 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 June 14, 2026. We still re-test it periodically in case it returns.
Was 109.203.204.249 ever actually a proxy?
Yes. We ran 238 checks against it and it answered 53 of them, about 22% of the time, over 31 days on our list.
Where was 109.203.204.249 hosted?
Russia, PJSC "Rostelecom". Technical Team (AS12389). 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 PJSC "rostelecom"?
5 other free proxies are live on PJSC "rostelecom" (AS12389) in our pool right now, alongside 109.203.204.249:1080. 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 Russia?
Yes, 195 free proxies are exiting from Russia in our pool right now, answering in 5244ms at the median. If this address is not usable, that list is the place to look for a working one.
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