Is 2.26.172.89:3128 a proxy? Yes, it was.
2.26.172.89:3128 was a public proxy in the HProxy free proxy pool, exiting from United Kingdom on FREAKHOSTING. Across 541 checks it answered 13% of the time, and it has since gone dark (last answered August 27, 2026), so it is not a usable proxy right now.
across all 541 checks
United KingdomHow this one compares
It worked sometimes, for 80 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 10,787 proxies answering right now, the middle of the pack answers 28.9% of the checks we send it.
13%
of 541 checks answered
Pool median 28.9%. 2.26.172.89:3128 sits below it, which is ordinary for a public proxy.
541
real connection attempts
Each one opens a socket and waits up to 90 seconds. Slow and unreachable look identical if you stop listening early.
80
days from first sighting to last answer
Of the 207,048 free proxies we have watched stop working, half were gone within 28 days of us first seeing them.
June 8, 2026
First listed by our sources
Published as a working proxy by 9 of the public lists HProxy tracks. Being listed is a claim, not a test.
August 27, 2026
Stopped answering
It answered our checks for 80 days before it went quiet.
August 30, 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.
September 2, 2026
Most recent re-test
HProxy has opened 541 real connections to this endpoint in total. The sweep reaches every address in the database roughly once every 12 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 207,048 endpoints that stopped working.
Middle halfMedianFull range
How quickly one answers
Response time on the last successful check, across the 10,787 proxies answering right now.
Continuous monitoring
How HProxy checks 2.26.172.89:3128
HProxy has checked 2.26.172.89:3128 541 times and it answered 68 of those. Every one of those was a real connection attempt, never a lookup.
9 public sources published it
2.26.172.89 appears in 9 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 3128: Squid default
Port 3128 is the default for Squid, the most widely installed proxy software in the world. Most addresses published on 3128 are Squid servers that were meant to serve one office or one network and ended up reachable by everybody.
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 2.26.172.89:3128 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.
541 checks, 68 answered
That is 13% of the time, measured since June 8, 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. 2.26.172.89:3128 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 12 hours. Its last check was on September 2, 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 2.26.172.89:3128, and nothing it does not.
- First seen
- June 8, 2026
- Last checked
- September 2, 2026
- Next check due
- within 12 hours
- Checks run
- 541
- Times it answered
- 68
- Stopped answering
- August 27, 2026
13%
answered 68 of 541 checks
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Where this address sits
Right now our free pool holds 1 other free proxy on Freakhosting, and 951 in United Kingdom. 2.26.172.89:3128 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 FREAKHOSTING
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 59 addresses on AS215703, which is 0.01% of every address in the database and a small corner of the database. 1 of them is answering right now, so if this particular address is not usable, the network is a reasonable place to look for one that is.
- Answering now2%
- Answered before31%
- Never answered68%
- 1LimitedNetwork-ASAS213790227,474
- 2SECURED SERVERS LLCAS1943776,803
- 3SECURED SERVERS LLCAS2045440,183
- 4Amazon.com, Inc.AS1650938,676
- 5Cloudflare, Inc.AS1333522,891
- 6M247AS900917,957
- 7Cloudflare, Inc.AS20924214,258
- 8Alibaba (US) Technology Co., Ltd.AS4510212,184
- AS215703 sits outside the 250 largest networks we hold.
Questions about 2.26.172.89:3128
Is 2.26.172.89:3128 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 August 27, 2026. We still re-test it periodically in case it returns.
Was 2.26.172.89 ever actually a proxy?
Yes. We ran 541 checks against it and it answered 68 of them, about 13% of the time, over 3 months on our list.
What is the hostname for 2.26.172.89?
2.26.172.89 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 2.26.172.89 hosted?
Doncaster, England, United Kingdom, FREAKHOSTING (AS215703). It is a datacenter address, not a home connection.
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 Freakhosting?
1 other free proxy is live on Freakhosting (AS215703) in our pool right now, alongside 2.26.172.89:3128. 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 United Kingdom?
Yes, 951 free proxies are exiting from United Kingdom in our pool right now, answering in 722ms at the median. If this address is not usable, that list is the place to look for a working one.
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