Is 197.248.37.31:8080 a proxy? Yes, it was.
197.248.37.31:8080 was a public proxy in the HProxy free proxy pool, exiting from Kenya on Safaricom Limited. Across 253 checks it answered 0% 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 253 checks
KenyaHow this one compares
253 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 253 times, which is why the answer on this page is a flat no rather than a maybe.
0%
of 253 checks answered
Pool median 13.8%. 197.248.37.31:8080 sits below it, which is ordinary for a public proxy.
253
real connection attempts
Each one opens a socket and waits up to 90 seconds. Slow and unreachable look identical if you stop listening early.
32
days in our records, never once answering
It is not in the lifespan figures at all: those cover the 193,375 endpoints that worked at least once before they stopped.
May 13, 2026
First listed by our sources
Published as a working proxy by 2 of the public lists HProxy tracks. Being listed is a claim, not a test.
June 14, 2026
Stopped answering
It answered our checks for 32 days before it went quiet.
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.
August 13, 2026
Most recent re-test
HProxy has opened 253 real connections to this endpoint in total. The sweep reaches every address in the database roughly once every 24 hours.
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 193,375 endpoints that stopped working.
Middle halfMedianFull range
How quickly one answers
Response time on the last successful check, across the 8,765 proxies answering right now.
Continuous monitoring
How HProxy checks 197.248.37.31:8080
HProxy has checked 197.248.37.31:8080 253 times and it answered 1 of those. Every one of those was a real connection attempt, never a lookup.
2 public sources published it
197.248.37.31 appears in 2 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 8080: HTTP, alternate
Port 8080 is the most common proxy port on the internet. It stands in for port 80, and unlike port 80 any program can open it without administrator rights. That single detail is why so much ends up here, the deliberate and the accidental alike.
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 197.248.37.31:8080 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. 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.
253 checks, 1 answered
That is 0% of the time, measured since May 13, 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. 197.248.37.31:8080 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 13, 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 197.248.37.31:8080, and nothing it does not.
- First seen
- May 13, 2026
- Last checked
- August 13, 2026
- Next check due
- within 24 hours
- Checks run
- 253
- Times it answered
- 1
- Stopped answering
- June 14, 2026
0%
answered 1 of 253 checks
Live free proxies right now
View all →Where this address sits
Right now our free pool holds 2 other free proxies on Safaricom, and 21 in Kenya. 197.248.37.31:8080 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 Safaricom Limited
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 66 addresses on AS37061, which is 0.01% of every address in the database and a small corner of the database. 2 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 now3%
- Answered before15%
- Never answered82%
- 1LimitedNetwork-ASAS213790227,266
- 2Amazon.com, Inc.AS1650927,108
- 3Cloudflare, Inc.AS1333522,185
- 4SECURED SERVERS LLCAS2045419,475
- 5Cloudflare, Inc.AS20924214,140
- 6Alibaba (US) Technology Co., Ltd.AS4510211,678
- 7GloboTech CommunicationsAS3666611,542
- 8ChinanetAS41348,373
- AS37061 sits outside the 250 largest networks we hold.
Questions about 197.248.37.31:8080
Is 197.248.37.31:8080 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 197.248.37.31 ever actually a proxy?
Yes. We ran 253 checks against it and it answered 1 of them, about 0% of the time, over 32 days on our list.
What is the hostname for 197.248.37.31?
Its reverse DNS record is 197-248-37-31.safaricombusiness.co.ke. That is what the address itself publishes about who operates it, which is often more telling than the network name: hosting providers name their machines by region and instance type, and a residential line usually carries its ISP's own pattern.
Where was 197.248.37.31 hosted?
Nairobi, Nairobi County, Kenya, Safaricom Limited (AS37061). 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 Safaricom?
2 other free proxies are live on Safaricom (AS37061) in our pool right now, alongside 197.248.37.31:8080. 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 Kenya?
Yes, 21 free proxies are exiting from Kenya in our pool right now, answering in 3452ms at the median. If this address is not usable, that list is the place to look for a working one.
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