Is 79.132.142.217:3128 a proxy? Yes, it was.
79.132.142.217:3128 was a public proxy in the HProxy free proxy pool, exiting from Germany on FORNEX-AS. Across 299 checks it answered 14% of the time, and it has since gone dark (last answered August 27, 2026), so it is not a usable proxy right now.
GermanyHow this one compares
It worked sometimes, for 3 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 10,506 proxies answering right now, the middle of the pack answers 38.2% of the checks we send it.
14%
of 299 checks answered
Pool median 38.2%. 79.132.142.217:3128 sits below it, which is ordinary for a public proxy.
299
real connection attempts
Each one opens a socket and waits up to 90 seconds. Slow and unreachable look identical if you stop listening early.
3
days from first sighting to last answer
Of the 200,835 free proxies we have watched stop working, half were gone within 28 days of us first seeing them.
August 24, 2026
First listed by our sources
Published as a working proxy by 39 of the public lists HProxy tracks. Being listed is a claim, not a test.
August 27, 2026
Stopped answering
It answered our checks for 3 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.
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 200,835 endpoints that stopped working.
Middle halfMedianFull range
How quickly one answers
Response time on the last successful check, across the 10,506 proxies answering right now.
Continuous monitoring
How HProxy checks 79.132.142.217:3128
HProxy has checked 79.132.142.217:3128 299 times and it answered 43 of those. Every one of those was a real connection attempt, never a lookup.
39 public sources published it
79.132.142.217 appears in 39 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 79.132.142.217:3128 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.
299 checks, 43 answered
That is 14% 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. 79.132.142.217:3128 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 August 30, 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 79.132.142.217:3128, and nothing it does not.
- First seen
- August 24, 2026
- Last checked
- August 30, 2026
- Next check due
- within 12 hours
- Checks run
- 299
- Times it answered
- 43
- Stopped answering
- August 27, 2026
14%
answered 43 of 299 checks
Live free proxies right now
View allWhere this address sits
Right now our free pool holds 3 other free proxies on Fornex AS, and 1,388 in Germany. 79.132.142.217:3128 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 FORNEX-AS
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 29 addresses on AS44051, which is 0.00% of every address in the database and a small corner of the database. 3 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 now10%
- Answered before28%
- Never answered62%
- 1LimitedNetwork-ASAS213790227,474
- 2SECURED SERVERS LLCAS1943745,247
- 3Amazon.com, Inc.AS1650935,163
- 4SECURED SERVERS LLCAS2045429,141
- 5Cloudflare, Inc.AS1333522,886
- 6M247AS900915,997
- 7Cloudflare, Inc.AS20924214,257
- 8Alibaba (US) Technology Co., Ltd.AS4510212,165
- AS44051 sits outside the 250 largest networks we hold.
Questions about 79.132.142.217:3128
Is 79.132.142.217:3128 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 79.132.142.217 ever actually a proxy?
Yes. We ran 299 checks against it and it answered 43 of them, about 14% of the time, over 3 days on our list.
What is the hostname for 79.132.142.217?
Its reverse DNS record is 287744.fornex.cloud. 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 79.132.142.217 hosted?
Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany, FORNEX-AS (AS44051). 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 Fornex AS?
3 other free proxies are live on Fornex AS (AS44051) in our pool right now, alongside 79.132.142.217:3128. 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 Germany?
Yes, 1,388 free proxies are exiting from Germany in our pool right now, answering in 1079ms at the median. If this address is not usable, that list is the place to look for a working one.
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