Is 178.253.23.71:30828 a proxy? Yes, it was.
178.253.23.71:30828 was a public proxy in the HProxy free proxy pool, exiting from Greece on TWC-EU. Across 823 checks it answered 10% of the time, and it has since gone dark (last answered June 29, 2026), so it is not a usable proxy right now.
GreeceUptime & downtime
14
Days tracked
336
Checks run
19%
Downtime
6
Down days
How this one compares
It worked sometimes, for 18 days, and then it stopped.
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.
10%
of 823 checks answered
Pool median 15.9%. 178.253.23.71:30828 sits below it, which is ordinary for a public proxy.
823
real connection attempts
Each one opens a socket and waits up to 90 seconds. Slow and dead look identical if you stop listening early.
18
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 178.253.23.71:30828
HProxy has checked 178.253.23.71:30828 823 times and it answered 82 of those. Every one of those was a real connection attempt, never a lookup.
31 public sources published it
178.253.23.71 appears in 31 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 30828: 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 178.253.23.71:30828 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.
823 checks, 82 answered
That is 10% of the time, measured since June 11, 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. 178.253.23.71:30828 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 178.253.23.71:30828, and nothing it does not.
- First seen
- June 11, 2026
- Last checked
- August 9, 2026
- Next check due
- within 24 hours
- Checks run
- 823
- Times it answered
- 82
- Stopped answering
- June 29, 2026
10%
answered 82 of 823 checks
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Where this address sits
Right now our free pool holds 6 other free proxies on TWC EU, and 2 in Greece. 178.253.23.71:30828 sits inside that set, so if it is not usable the pages below are where its closest alternatives are.
TWC-EU is the 99th 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 434 addresses on AS210976, which is 0.07% of every address in the database and a small corner of the database. That makes it the 99th largest source of free proxies of every network we have ever seen. 6 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 before45%
- Never answered54%
- 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
90 networks between
99TWC-EUAS210976434
Questions about 178.253.23.71:30828
Is 178.253.23.71:30828 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 29, 2026. We still re-test it periodically in case it returns.
Was 178.253.23.71 ever actually a proxy?
Yes. We ran 823 checks against it and it answered 82 of them, about 10% of the time, over 18 days on our list.
Where was 178.253.23.71 hosted?
Greece, TWC-EU (AS210976). 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 TWC EU?
6 other free proxies are live on TWC EU (AS210976) in our pool right now, alongside 178.253.23.71:30828. 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 Greece?
Yes, 2 free proxies are exiting from Greece in our pool right now, answering in 5962ms at the median. If this address is not usable, that list is the place to look for a working one.
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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.