Is 217.160.249.182:8888 a proxy? Yes, it was.
217.160.249.182:8888 was a public proxy in the HProxy free proxy pool, exiting from Germany on This is the joint network for IONOS, Fasthosts, Arsys, 1&1 Mail and Media and 1&1 Telecom. Formerly known as 1&1 Internet SE.. Across 326 checks it answered 37% of the time, and it has since gone dark (last answered August 26, 2026), so it is not a usable proxy right now.
across all 326 checks
GermanyHow this one compares
It was one of the good ones, for 2 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 8,212 proxies answering right now, the middle of the pack answers 27.6% of the checks we send it.
37%
of 326 checks answered
Pool median 27.6%. 217.160.249.182:8888 is in the better half.
326
real connection attempts
Each one opens a socket and waits up to 90 seconds. Slow and unreachable look identical if you stop listening early.
2
days from first sighting to last answer
Of the 281,479 free proxies we have watched stop working, half were gone within 25 days of us first seeing them.
August 24, 2026
First listed by our sources
Published as a working proxy by 42 of the public lists HProxy tracks. Being listed is a claim, not a test.
August 26, 2026
Stopped answering
It answered our checks for 2 days before it went quiet.
August 29, 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 20, 2026
Most recent re-test
HProxy has opened 326 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 281,479 endpoints that stopped working.
Middle halfMedianFull range
How quickly one answers
Response time on the last successful check, across the 8,212 proxies answering right now.
Continuous monitoring
How HProxy checks 217.160.249.182:8888
HProxy has checked 217.160.249.182:8888 326 times and it answered 119 of those. Every one of those was a real connection attempt, never a lookup.
42 public sources published it
217.160.249.182 appears in 42 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 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.
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 217.160.249.182:8888 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.
326 checks, 119 answered
That is 37% of the time, measured since August 24, 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. 217.160.249.182:8888 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 12 hours. Its last check was on September 20, 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 217.160.249.182:8888, and nothing it does not.
- First seen
- August 24, 2026
- Last checked
- September 20, 2026
- Next check due
- within 12 hours
- Checks run
- 326
- Times it answered
- 119
- Stopped answering
- August 26, 2026
37%
answered 119 of 326 checks
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Where this address sits
Right now our free pool holds 6 other free proxies on IONOS, and 397 in Germany. 217.160.249.182:8888 sits inside that set, so if it is not usable the pages below are where its closest alternatives are.
This is the joint network for IONOS, Fasthosts, Arsys, 1&1 Mail and Media and 1&1 Telecom. Formerly known as 1&1 Internet SE. is the 150th 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 292 addresses on AS8560, which is 0.04% of every address in the database and a small corner of the database. That makes it the 150th 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 now2%
- Answered before16%
- Never answered82%
- 1LimitedNetwork-ASAS213790227,474
- 2SECURED SERVERS LLCAS1943779,187
- 3SECURED SERVERS LLCAS2045448,688
- 4Amazon.com, Inc.AS1650945,650
- 5M247AS900931,697
- 6Cloudflare, Inc.AS1333522,925
- 7Cloudflare, Inc.AS20924214,276
- 8Alibaba (US) Technology Co., Ltd.AS4510212,277
141 networks between
150This is the joint network for IONOS, Fasthosts, Arsys, 1&1 Mail and Media and 1&1 Telecom. Formerly known as 1&1 Internet SE.AS8560292
Questions about 217.160.249.182:8888
Is 217.160.249.182:8888 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 August 26, 2026. We still re-test it periodically in case it returns.
Was 217.160.249.182 ever actually a proxy?
Yes. We ran 326 checks against it and it answered 119 of them, about 37% of the time, over 2 days on our list.
What is the hostname for 217.160.249.182?
Its reverse DNS record is sshteel.site. 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 217.160.249.182 hosted?
Germany, This is the joint network for IONOS, Fasthosts, Arsys, 1&1 Mail and Media and 1&1 Telecom. Formerly known as 1&1 Internet SE. (AS8560). 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 IONOS?
6 other free proxies are live on IONOS (AS8560) in our pool right now, alongside 217.160.249.182:8888. 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 Germany?
Yes, 397 free proxies are exiting from Germany in our pool right now, answering in 848ms 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
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