Is 38.253.88.242:99 a proxy? It was listed.
38.253.88.242:99 was listed as a public proxy in 4 of our sources, but across 6 checks it never once resolved to a connectable proxy. We keep re-testing it around the clock, and it has never come online for us.
never connectable
Dominican RepublicUptime & downtime
1
Days tracked
2
Checks run
100%
Downtime
1
Down days
Continuous monitoring
How HProxy checks 38.253.88.242:99
HProxy has opened a connection to 38.253.88.242:99 6 times and it has never once answered. That is a measurement, not an assumption, and it is the difference between this record and the lists that republished the address without testing it.
4 public sources published it
38.253.88.242 appears in 4 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 99: System port
Ports below 1024 are privileged: on most operating systems a program needs administrator rights to listen on one. Whatever answered here was therefore started by a system service or by someone with full control of the machine, not by an ordinary user process.
Every failure here was measured, not assumed
Each check opens an actual connection to 38.253.88.242:99 and waits up to 4 seconds for the other end to complete a proxy handshake. Nothing about this record is inherited from the list that published the address. 6 times HProxy tried, and 6 times the connection did not complete inside that budget, which is why the answer on this page is a flat no rather than a maybe. The handshake is attempted across HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS4 and SOCKS5, so a proxy is never missed because we guessed the wrong protocol.
6 checks, zero connections
Not one of those 6 attempts reached a working proxy. The address stays in the database with that result attached, because "we tried 6 times and it never answered" is a far more useful answer than silence for anyone who found 38.253.88.242 somewhere and wants to know what it is.
It is still re-tested every 24 hours
38.253.88.242:99 has never answered, and it is still in the rotation anyway. The sweep reaches every address in the database roughly once every 24 hours regardless of its history, because an address that was dark for months can be brought back online by whoever controls it without telling anybody. Its last check was on August 3, 2026, so the next one is due within a day of that. If that ever happens here, this page changes on its own.
This endpoint
The record
Everything HProxy holds on 38.253.88.242:99, and nothing it does not.
- First seen
- July 31, 2026
- Last checked
- August 3, 2026
- Next check due
- within 24 hours
- Checks run
- 6
- Times it answered
- 0
- Stopped answering
- July 31, 2026
0%
never answered across 6 attempts
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Where this address sits
Right now our free pool holds no other free proxies on AS174 right now, and 35 in Dominican Republic. 38.253.88.242:99 sits inside that set, so if it is not usable the pages below are where its closest alternatives are.
What HProxy holds on Cogent Communications
Open proxies are not spread evenly across the internet. They cluster, because one misconfigured template, one cheap hosting reseller or one leaked image tends to produce hundreds of identical machines on the same network. HProxy tracks 1,557 addresses on AS174, which is 0.27% of every address in the database and a meaningful pocket of the database. 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 before5%
- Never answered95%
Questions about 38.253.88.242:99
Is 38.253.88.242:99 a working proxy?
No. 38.253.88.242:99 was published as a public proxy by our sources, but across 6 checks it never once resolved to a connectable proxy.
Was 38.253.88.242 ever actually a proxy?
It was listed as one, but no. 6 checks, zero successful connections. Plenty of "free proxy" lists republish addresses without ever testing them.
Where was 38.253.88.242 hosted?
Dominican Republic — Cogent Communications (AS174). 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 AS174?
None other than 38.253.88.242:99 at the moment. AS174 (AS174) has no other free proxies live in our pool right now, though that changes as we re-verify.
Are there other free proxies in Dominican Republic?
Yes, 35 free proxies are exiting from Dominican Republic in our pool right now, answering in 4671ms at the median. If this address is not usable, that list is the place to look for a working one.
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