Is 156.238.240.81:1081 a proxy? Yes.
156.238.240.81:1081 is a public HTTP proxy in the HProxy free proxy list, exiting from Seychelles. It holds a spotty 0% uptime, and was last checked just now.
uptime
SeychellesOther ports on this IP
156.238.240.81 is answering on 2 ports right now.
Ports like this one rarely travel alone. We hold 2 of them on 156.238.240.81 and have run 16 checks against them since September 1, 2026. When an address turns up on public lists across this many ports, each port is published as its own entry, so each one gets its own record here.
Best responding ports
Best on this IP is 156.238.240.81:1080 at 66.7% across 15 checks
How this one compares
1 attempts. Not one connection.
Being published on a proxy list is a claim that an address works. It is not a test, and nobody in that chain is obliged to have tried it. We tried 1 times, which is why the answer on this page is a flat no rather than a maybe.
0%
of 1 checks answered
Pool median 34.4%. 156.238.240.81:1081 sits below it, which is ordinary for a public proxy.
1
real connection attempts
Each one opens a socket and waits up to 90 seconds. Slow and unreachable look identical if you stop listening early.
0
days in our records, never once answering
It is not in the lifespan figures at all: those cover the 201,660 endpoints that worked at least once before they stopped.
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 201,660 endpoints that stopped working.
Middle halfMedianFull range
How quickly one answers
Response time on the last successful check, across the 9,118 proxies answering right now.
Where this address sits
Right now our free pool holds no other free proxies on cognetcloud INC, and 14 in Seychelles. 156.238.240.81:1081 sits inside that set, so if it is not usable the pages below are where its closest alternatives are.
How many free proxies are on cognetcloud INC
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 117 addresses on AS401696, which is 0.02% of every address in the database and a small corner of the database. None of them are answering at the moment, though every one stays in the re-check rotation in case that changes.
- Answered before19%
- Never answered81%
- 1LimitedNetwork-ASAS213790227,474
- 2SECURED SERVERS LLCAS1943757,626
- 3SECURED SERVERS LLCAS2045438,786
- 4Amazon.com, Inc.AS1650937,133
- 5Cloudflare, Inc.AS1333522,890
- 6M247AS900917,540
- 7Cloudflare, Inc.AS20924214,258
- 8Alibaba (US) Technology Co., Ltd.AS4510212,171
- AS401696 sits outside the 250 largest networks we hold.
How to use this proxy
Route a request through 156.238.240.81:1081 over HTTP. Free proxies are shared and rotate out fast, so test before you rely on it.
curl -x http://156.238.240.81:1081 \
https://api.ipify.org?format=json
Not a terminal person? Pick your device and we walk you through it, nothing assumed.
Continuous monitoring
How HProxy checks 156.238.240.81:1081
156.238.240.81:1081 is in the live pool right now, and it stays there only for as long as it keeps answering.
Port 1081: SOCKS, alternate
Port 1081 is where the second SOCKS tunnel goes when 1080 on the same machine is already busy. Seeing it usually means somebody set up more than one.
Every failure here was measured, not assumed
Each check opens a real connection to 156.238.240.81:1081 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. Nothing about this record is inherited from the list that published the address. 1 times HProxy tried, and 1 times the connection did not complete inside that budget, which is why the answer on this page is a flat no rather than a maybe. The handshake is attempted across HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS4 and SOCKS5, which is how we know it spoke HTTP.
1 checks, zero connections
Not one of those 1 attempts reached a working proxy. The address stays in the database with that result attached, because "we tried 1 times and it never answered" is a far more useful answer than silence for anyone who found 156.238.240.81 somewhere and wants to know what it is.
It is being re-tested continuously
156.238.240.81:1081 is in the live rotation, so it is re-tested continuously rather than on a daily cycle. If it stops answering it is marked down immediately, and if it stays down for 3 days it moves into the public proxy database with its full record intact. Nothing is deleted at any point.
This endpoint
The record
Everything HProxy holds on 156.238.240.81:1081, and nothing it does not.
- First seen
- September 1, 2026
- Last checked
- September 1, 2026
- Next check due
- continuously
- Checks run
- 1
- Times it answered
- 0
- Spoke
- HTTP
0%
never answered across 1 attempts
Questions about 156.238.240.81:1081
Is 156.238.240.81:1081 a working proxy right now?
Yes. 156.238.240.81:1081 answered HProxy's automated check just now and is in the live free proxy pool as we publish this page. It is re-tested every few minutes, so open this page again for its current state rather than trusting a copy of it.
What kind of proxy is 156.238.240.81?
It speaks HTTP. The port is 1081. Point your client at 156.238.240.81:1081 over http to route a request through it.
Where is 156.238.240.81 located?
Traffic through it exits from Seychelles, on cognetcloud INC (AS401696). That is where the destination site will think your request came from.
How reliable has 156.238.240.81:1081 been?
Across 1 day of tracking it answered 0% of our checks. The chart on this page shows every day we have recorded for it, including the days it was down.
Is it safe to use 156.238.240.81:1081?
Treat it the way you would any public proxy: it is operated by someone we have no relationship with, it is shared with strangers, and anything you send unencrypted over it can be read. Fine for a quick geo check or a scrape of public data, never for logins, payments or anything private.
How many free proxies are on cognetcloud INC?
None other than 156.238.240.81:1081 at the moment. AS401696 (cognetcloud INC) has no other free proxies live in our pool right now, though that changes as we re-verify.
Are there other free proxies in Seychelles?
Yes, 14 free proxies are exiting from Seychelles in our pool right now, answering in 7122ms at the median. If this address is not usable, that list is the place to look for a working one.
Where to go next
Upgrade to the paid network
Free proxies fail. This is what that looks like.
156.238.240.81:1081 answers 0% of the time, and that is ordinary for a public proxy. Nothing here is a service anybody sells you, which is why the numbers swing and why the list turns over constantly.
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About this list & IP removal
Every proxy here is aggregated from publicly available sources. We do not scan or collect these IP addresses ourselves: we verify entries that are already public (live status, latency, uptime) and store nothing else about the devices behind them. The list is provided as-is, with no warranty, for lawful use only, on the basis of our legitimate interest in a free, transparent proxy directory (Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR). Never route passwords or sensitive data through a public proxy. If an IP address is yours and you'd like it removed, email legal@hproxy.com and we'll take it down (Art. 21 GDPR). Full details on the report abuse page.