Is 20.31.8.120:1080 a proxy? Yes.
20.31.8.120:1080 is a public SOCKS4 proxy in the HProxy free proxy list, exiting from Netherlands. It holds a spotty 15% uptime with a quick 153ms response time, and was last checked 12 hr ago.
uptime
NetherlandsOther ports on this IP
20.31.8.120 is answering on 2 ports right now.
Ports like this one rarely travel alone. We hold 2 of them on 20.31.8.120 and have run 48 checks against them since September 7, 2026. When an address turns up on public lists across this many ports, each port is published as its own entry, so each one gets its own record here.
Best responding ports
Best on this IP is 20.31.8.120:1080 at 15.2% across 46 checks
How this one compares
46 checks in, its uptime is ordinary for a free proxy.
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 7,477 proxies answering right now, the middle of the pack answers 24.7% of the checks we send it.
15%
of 46 checks answered
Pool median 24.7%. 20.31.8.120:1080 sits below it, which is ordinary for a public proxy.
153ms
on its last response
Pool median 6,669ms, so this one is roughly 44x quicker than typical.
1
days tracked, still in the live pool
Of the 240,056 free proxies we have watched stop working, half were gone within 25 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.
How long one lasts
Days from the first time we saw an address to the last time it answered, across 240,056 endpoints that stopped working.
Middle halfMedianFull range
How quickly one answers
Response time on the last successful check, across the 7,477 proxies answering right now.
Where this address sits
Right now our free pool holds 11 other free proxies on Microsoft, and 489 in Netherlands. 20.31.8.120:1080 sits inside that set, so if it is not usable the pages below are where its closest alternatives are. At 153ms it answers faster than the 3506ms median for Netherlands proxies (about 4% of it).
Microsoft Corporation is the 55th 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 1,049 addresses on AS8075, which is 0.14% of every address in the database and a meaningful pocket of the database. That makes it the 55th largest source of free proxies of every network we have ever seen. 12 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 before14%
- Never answered85%
- 1LimitedNetwork-ASAS213790227,474
- 2SECURED SERVERS LLCAS1943779,187
- 3SECURED SERVERS LLCAS2045446,883
- 4Amazon.com, Inc.AS1650942,311
- 5Cloudflare, Inc.AS1333522,918
- 6M247AS900918,317
- 7Cloudflare, Inc.AS20924214,272
- 8Alibaba (US) Technology Co., Ltd.AS4510212,230
46 networks between
55Microsoft CorporationAS80751,049
How to use this proxy
Route a request through 20.31.8.120:1080 over SOCKS4. Free proxies are shared and rotate out fast, so test before you rely on it.
curl -x socks4://20.31.8.120:1080 \
https://api.ipify.org?format=json
Not a terminal person? Pick your device and we walk you through it, nothing assumed.
Continuous monitoring
How HProxy checks 20.31.8.120:1080
20.31.8.120:1080 is in the live pool right now, and it stays there only for as long as it keeps answering.
Port 1080: SOCKS
Port 1080 is the officially registered home of SOCKS, which forwards any kind of connection instead of only web traffic. An address offered on 1080 is being presented 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 a real connection to 20.31.8.120:1080 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, which is how we know it spoke SOCKS4 and SOCKS5.
46 checks, 7 answered
That is 15% of the time, measured since September 7, 2026. Every one of those results, successes and failures alike, is a connection HProxy opened itself.
It is being re-tested continuously
20.31.8.120:1080 is in the live rotation, so it is re-tested continuously rather than on a daily cycle. If it stops answering it is marked down immediately, and if it stays down for 3 days it moves into the public proxy database with its full record intact. Nothing is deleted at any point.
This endpoint
The record
Everything HProxy holds on 20.31.8.120:1080, and nothing it does not.
- First seen
- September 7, 2026
- Last checked
- September 8, 2026
- Next check due
- continuously
- Checks run
- 46
- Times it answered
- 7
- Spoke
- SOCKS4, SOCKS5
15%
answered 7 of 46 checks
Questions about 20.31.8.120:1080
Is 20.31.8.120:1080 a working proxy right now?
Yes. 20.31.8.120:1080 answered HProxy's automated check 12 hr ago and is in the live free proxy pool as we publish this page. It is re-tested every few minutes, so open this page again for its current state rather than trusting a copy of it.
What kind of proxy is 20.31.8.120?
It speaks SOCKS4, SOCKS5, and our checks grade it elite. The port is 1080. Point your client at 20.31.8.120:1080 over socks4 to route a request through it.
Where is 20.31.8.120 located?
Traffic through it exits from Amsterdam, Netherlands, on Microsoft Corporation (AS8075). That is where the destination site will think your request came from.
How fast is 20.31.8.120:1080?
It answered in 153ms on the last check. Free public proxies are shared, so real-world speed varies with how many other people are using it at the same moment.
How reliable has 20.31.8.120:1080 been?
Across 2 days of tracking it answered 15% of our checks. The chart on this page shows every day we have recorded for it, including the days it was down.
Is it safe to use 20.31.8.120:1080?
Treat it the way you would any public proxy: it is operated by someone we have no relationship with, it is shared with strangers, and anything you send unencrypted over it can be read. Fine for a quick geo check or a scrape of public data, never for logins, payments or anything private.
How many free proxies are on Microsoft?
11 other free proxies are live on Microsoft (AS8075) in our pool right now, alongside 20.31.8.120:1080. 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 Netherlands?
Yes, 489 free proxies are exiting from Netherlands in our pool right now, answering in 3506ms at the median. If this address is not usable, that list is the place to look for a working one.
Where to go next
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Free proxies fail. This is what that looks like.
20.31.8.120:1080 answers 15% of the time, and that is ordinary for a public proxy. Nothing here is a service anybody sells you, which is why the numbers swing and why the list turns over constantly.
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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.