Is 168.222.254.136:8888 a proxy? Yes, it was.

168.222.254.136:8888 was a public proxy in the HProxy free proxy pool, exiting from Germany on nodehost-as. Across 259 checks it answered 21% of the time, and it has since gone dark (last answered June 14, 2026), so it is not a usable proxy right now.

Not responding
21%

across all 259 checks

Checks run259
Times online54
First listedMay 13, 2026
Last checkedAugust 10, 2026
Listed for32 days
HostingResidential / ISP
CountryDE Germany

How this one compares

It was one of the good ones, for 32 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 3,797 proxies answering right now, the middle of the pack answers 15.6% of the checks we send it.

21%

of 259 checks answered

median 15.6%

Pool median 15.6%. 168.222.254.136:8888 is in the better half.

259

real connection attempts

Each one opens a socket and waits up to 90 seconds. Slow and dead look identical if you stop listening early.

32

days from first sighting to last answer

Of the 192,453 free proxies we have watched stop working, half were gone within 28 days of us first seeing them.

The record on 168.222.254.136:8888Every date HProxy holds for this one endpoint, in order.
  1. May 13, 2026

    First listed by our sources

    Published as a working proxy by 7 of the public lists HProxy tracks. Being listed is a claim, not a test.

  2. June 14, 2026

    Stopped answering

    It answered our checks for 32 days before it went quiet.

  3. June 17, 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.

  4. August 10, 2026

    Most recent re-test

    HProxy has opened 259 real connections to this endpoint in total. The sweep reaches every address in the database roughly once every 24 hours.

168.222.254.136:8888 answered for 32 days and has been re-tested 259 times in total. It is still in the rotation in case it comes back.
Source: HProxy verification engine · hproxy.comProxy.

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.

What a normal free proxy looks likeTwo distributions from HProxy's own checks rather than from anybody's marketing page. Tails trimmed at the 5th and 95th percentile.

How long one lasts

Days from the first time we saw an address to the last time it answered, across 192,453 endpoints that stopped working.

Proxies that diedmedian 28 days
0204060

Middle halfMedianFull range

Half of the free proxies we have watched stop working were gone within 28 days of us first seeing them.

How quickly one answers

Response time on the last successful check, across the 3,797 proxies answering right now.

Live free proxiesmedian 2,406ms
05,00010k15k20k
The spread runs from 200ms to 19,822ms across the same list.
Source: HProxy verification engine · hproxy.comProxy.

Continuous monitoring

How HProxy checks 168.222.254.136:8888

HProxy has checked 168.222.254.136:8888 259 times and it answered 54 of those. Every one of those was a real connection attempt, never a lookup.

  1. 7 public sources published it

    168.222.254.136 appears in 7 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.

  2. Port 8888: HTTP, alternate

    Port 8888 is another common stand-in for port 80, and the default for several debugging and proxy-inspection tools. Seeing it usually says more about the software than about the host.

  3. 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 168.222.254.136:8888 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.

  4. 259 checks, 54 answered

    That is 21% of the time, measured since May 13, 2026. Every one of those results, successes and failures alike, is a connection HProxy opened itself.

  5. We are still watching for it to come back

    Being archived does not stop the testing. 168.222.254.136:8888 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 10, 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 168.222.254.136:8888, and nothing it does not.

First seen
May 13, 2026
Last checked
August 10, 2026
Next check due
within 24 hours
Checks run
259
Times it answered
54
Stopped answering
June 14, 2026

21%

answered 54 of 259 checks

Where this address sits

Right now our free pool holds no other free proxies on Nodehost As, and 282 in Germany. 168.222.254.136:8888 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 nodehost-as

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 24 addresses on AS198550, which is 0.00% 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.

AS198550 in the public proxy database
  • Answered before63%
  • Never answered38%
None are answering right now. 15 of the 24 addresses here answered at some point while we watched; the other 9 never did.Source: HProxy verification engine
The networks that host the most free proxiesAddresses in HProxy's public proxy list, by network. AS198550 is marked.
  1. 1LimitedNetwork-ASAS213790227,266
  2. 2Amazon.com, Inc.AS1650925,791
  3. 3Cloudflare, Inc.AS1333522,185
  4. 4SECURED SERVERS LLCAS2045419,475
  5. 5Cloudflare, Inc.AS20924214,136
  6. 6Alibaba (US) Technology Co., Ltd.AS4510211,648
  7. 7GloboTech CommunicationsAS3666611,542
  8. 8ChinanetAS41348,355
  9. AS198550 sits outside the 250 largest networks we hold.
Source: HProxy verification engine · hproxy.comProxy.
Is 168.222.254.136:8888 a proxy? It was: a free proxy in Germany that answered 21% of 259 checks before going dark, recorded by HProxy.
168.222.254.136:8888 at a glance. Its record stays published even though the address is no longer usable.

Questions about 168.222.254.136:8888

Is 168.222.254.136:8888 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 168.222.254.136 ever actually a proxy?

Yes. We ran 259 checks against it and it answered 54 of them, about 21% of the time, over 32 days on our list.

What is the hostname for 168.222.254.136?

168.222.254.136 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 168.222.254.136 hosted?

Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany, nodehost-as (AS198550). 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 Nodehost As?

None other than 168.222.254.136:8888 at the moment. AS198550 (Nodehost As) has no other free proxies live in our pool right now, though that changes as we re-verify.

Are there other free proxies in Germany?

Yes, 282 free proxies are exiting from Germany in our pool right now, answering in 538ms at the median. If this address is not usable, that list is the place to look for a working one.

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