Is 163.5.16.85:1080 a proxy? Yes, it was.
163.5.16.85:1080 was a public proxy in the HProxy free proxy pool, exiting from KR on HOSTKEY-AS. Across 306 checks it answered 38% of the time, and it has since gone dark (last listed 2026-07-29), so it is not a usable proxy right now.
uptime while tracked
South KoreaUptime & downtime
4
Days tracked
248
Checks run
64.5%
Downtime
3
Down days
Continuous monitoring
How HProxy checks 163.5.16.85:1080
HProxy has checked 163.5.16.85:1080 306 times and it answered 117 of those. Here is what each of those checks actually did.
50 public sources published it
163.5.16.85 appears in 50 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 port IANA registered for SOCKS, the protocol that forwards raw connections rather than only web requests. An address advertised on 1080 is being offered 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 an actual connection to 163.5.16.85:1080 and waits up to 4 seconds for the other end to complete a proxy handshake. 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.
306 checks, 117 answered
That is 38% of the time, measured since July 27, 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. 163.5.16.85:1080 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 3, 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 163.5.16.85:1080, and nothing it does not.
- First seen
- July 27, 2026
- Last checked
- August 3, 2026
- Next check due
- within 24 hours
- Checks run
- 306
- Times it answered
- 117
- Stopped answering
- July 29, 2026
38%
answered 117 of 306 checks
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Where this address sits
Right now our free pool holds 3 other free proxies on Hostkey AS, and 357 in South Korea. 163.5.16.85:1080 sits inside that set, so if it is not usable the pages below are where its closest alternatives are.
What HProxy holds on HOSTKEY-AS
Open proxies are not spread evenly across the internet. They cluster, because one misconfigured template, one cheap hosting reseller or one leaked image tends to produce hundreds of identical machines on the same network. HProxy tracks 232 addresses on AS57043, which is 0.04% of every address in the database and a small corner of the database. 11 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 before42%
- Never answered53%
Questions about 163.5.16.85:1080
Is 163.5.16.85:1080 a working proxy?
No, not any more. It was a working public proxy in HProxy's free pool and has since gone dark, last listed 2026-07-29. We still re-test it periodically in case it returns.
Was 163.5.16.85 ever actually a proxy?
Yes. We ran 306 checks against it and it answered 117 of them, about 38% of the time, over 2 days on our list.
Where was 163.5.16.85 hosted?
South Korea — HOSTKEY-AS (AS57043). 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 Hostkey AS?
3 other free proxies are live on Hostkey AS (AS57043) in our pool right now, alongside 163.5.16.85:1080. 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 South Korea?
Yes, 357 free proxies are exiting from South Korea in our pool right now, answering in 1118ms at the median. If this address is not usable, that list is the place to look for a working one.
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