Is 8.243.68.187:53281 a proxy? Yes, it was.
8.243.68.187:53281 was a public proxy in the HProxy free proxy pool, exiting from Colombia on Level 3 Communications, Inc.. Across 242 checks it answered 19% of the time, and it has since gone dark (last answered July 10, 2026), so it is not a usable proxy right now.
across all 242 checks
ColombiaUptime & downtime
3
Days tracked
170
Checks run
72.4%
Downtime
3
Down days
How this one compares
It was one of the good ones, for 0 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 3,983 proxies answering right now, the middle of the pack answers 15.1% of the checks we send it.
19%
of 242 checks answered
Pool median 15.1%. 8.243.68.187:53281 is in the better half.
242
real connection attempts
Each one opens a socket and waits up to 90 seconds. Slow and dead look identical if you stop listening early.
0
days from first sighting to last answer
Of the 192,872 free proxies we have watched stop working, half were gone within 28 days of us first seeing them.
July 10, 2026
First listed by our sources
Published as a working proxy by 24 of the public lists HProxy tracks. Being listed is a claim, not a test.
July 13, 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 12, 2026
Most recent re-test
HProxy has opened 242 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 192,872 endpoints that stopped working.
Middle halfMedianFull range
How quickly one answers
Response time on the last successful check, across the 3,983 proxies answering right now.
Continuous monitoring
How HProxy checks 8.243.68.187:53281
HProxy has checked 8.243.68.187:53281 242 times and it answered 47 of those. Every one of those was a real connection attempt, never a lookup.
24 public sources published it
8.243.68.187 appears in 24 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 53281: Ephemeral port range
This is a throwaway port number, the kind a computer hands out for a few minutes and then takes back. Anything published on one tends to move or disappear when its host restarts, which is a large part of why public proxy lists rot so fast.
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 8.243.68.187:53281 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.
242 checks, 47 answered
That is 19% of the time, measured since July 10, 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. 8.243.68.187:53281 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 12, 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 8.243.68.187:53281, and nothing it does not.
- First seen
- July 10, 2026
- Last checked
- August 12, 2026
- Next check due
- within 24 hours
- Checks run
- 242
- Times it answered
- 47
- Stopped answering
- July 10, 2026
19%
answered 47 of 242 checks
Live free proxies right now
View all →Where this address sits
Right now our free pool holds 1 other free proxy on Level 3, and 177 in Colombia. 8.243.68.187:53281 sits inside that set, so if it is not usable the pages below are where its closest alternatives are.
Level 3 Communications, Inc. is the 210th 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 165 addresses on AS3356, which is 0.03% of every address in the database and a small corner of the database. That makes it the 210th 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.
- Answering now1%
- Answered before10%
- Never answered90%
- 1LimitedNetwork-ASAS213790227,266
- 2Amazon.com, Inc.AS1650926,365
- 3Cloudflare, Inc.AS1333522,185
- 4SECURED SERVERS LLCAS2045419,475
- 5Cloudflare, Inc.AS20924214,137
- 6Alibaba (US) Technology Co., Ltd.AS4510211,657
- 7GloboTech CommunicationsAS3666611,542
- 8ChinanetAS41348,367
201 networks between
210Level 3 Communications, Inc.AS3356165
Questions about 8.243.68.187:53281
Is 8.243.68.187:53281 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 July 10, 2026. We still re-test it periodically in case it returns.
Was 8.243.68.187 ever actually a proxy?
Yes. We ran 242 checks against it and it answered 47 of them, about 19% of the time, over under a day on our list.
What is the hostname for 8.243.68.187?
8.243.68.187 publishes no reverse DNS record. That is not unusual and it is not suspicious on its own, but it does mean the address volunteers nothing about who runs it, so the network and the check history below are all there is to go on.
Where was 8.243.68.187 hosted?
Medellin, Antioquia, Colombia, Level 3 Communications, Inc. (AS3356). 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 Level 3?
1 other free proxy is live on Level 3 (AS3356) in our pool right now, alongside 8.243.68.187:53281. 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 Colombia?
Yes, 177 free proxies are exiting from Colombia in our pool right now, answering in 5091ms at the median. If this address is not usable, that list is the place to look for a working one.
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