Is 74.208.192.81:3128 a proxy? Yes, it was.
74.208.192.81:3128 was a public proxy in the HProxy free proxy pool, exiting from United States 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 223 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 223 checks
United StatesHow this one compares
223 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 223 times, which is why the answer on this page is a flat no rather than a maybe.
0%
of 223 checks answered
Pool median 16.4%. 74.208.192.81:3128 sits below it, which is ordinary for a public proxy.
223
real connection attempts
Each one opens a socket and waits up to 90 seconds. Slow and dead look identical if you stop listening early.
31
days in our records, never once answering
It is not in the lifespan figures at all: those cover the 192,781 endpoints that worked at least once before they stopped.
May 14, 2026
First listed by our sources
Published as a working proxy by 1 of the public lists HProxy tracks. Being listed is a claim, not a test.
June 14, 2026
Stopped answering
It answered our checks for 31 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 11, 2026
Most recent re-test
HProxy has opened 223 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 192,781 endpoints that stopped working.
Middle halfMedianFull range
How quickly one answers
Response time on the last successful check, across the 3,760 proxies answering right now.
Continuous monitoring
How HProxy checks 74.208.192.81:3128
HProxy has checked 74.208.192.81:3128 223 times and it answered 1 of those. Every one of those was a real connection attempt, never a lookup.
One public source published it
74.208.192.81 reached HProxy through a single public proxy source. Being published on a list is a claim that an address works. It is not a test, and nobody on that chain is obliged to have tried it.
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 74.208.192.81:3128 and gives it up to 90 seconds to answer. Slow is not the same as dead, 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.
223 checks, 1 answered
That is 0% of the time, measured since May 14, 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. 74.208.192.81:3128 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 24 hours. Its last check was on August 11, 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 74.208.192.81:3128, and nothing it does not.
- First seen
- May 14, 2026
- Last checked
- August 11, 2026
- Next check due
- within 24 hours
- Checks run
- 223
- Times it answered
- 1
- Stopped answering
- June 14, 2026
0%
answered 1 of 223 checks
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Where this address sits
Right now our free pool holds 1 other free proxy on IONOS, and 851 in United States. 74.208.192.81:3128 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 152nd 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 249 addresses on AS8560, which is 0.04% of every address in the database and a small corner of the database. That makes it the 152nd largest source of free proxies of every network we have ever seen. 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.
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- Answered before15%
- Never answered85%
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- 4SECURED SERVERS LLCAS2045419,475
- 5Cloudflare, Inc.AS20924214,136
- 6Alibaba (US) Technology Co., Ltd.AS4510211,657
- 7GloboTech CommunicationsAS3666611,542
- 8ChinanetAS41348,367
143 networks between
152This is the joint network for IONOS, Fasthosts, Arsys, 1&1 Mail and Media and 1&1 Telecom. Formerly known as 1&1 Internet SE.AS8560249
Questions about 74.208.192.81:3128
Is 74.208.192.81:3128 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 June 14, 2026. We still re-test it periodically in case it returns.
Was 74.208.192.81 ever actually a proxy?
Yes. We ran 223 checks against it and it answered 1 of them, about 0% of the time, over 31 days on our list.
What is the hostname for 74.208.192.81?
Its reverse DNS record is vg2.veilguard.net. 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 74.208.192.81 hosted?
United States, 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?
1 other free proxy is live on IONOS (AS8560) in our pool right now, alongside 74.208.192.81:3128. 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 States?
Yes, 851 free proxies are exiting from United States in our pool right now, answering in 3341ms at the median. If this address is not usable, that list is the place to look for a working one.
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