Is 85.120.255.185:8899 a proxy? Yes, it was.

85.120.255.185:8899 was a public proxy in the HProxy free proxy pool, exiting from Romania on AVAHOHST. Across 429 checks it answered 22% of the time, and it has since gone dark (last answered July 14, 2026), so it is not a usable proxy right now.

Not responding
22%

across all 429 checks

Checks run429
Times online93
First listedJuly 10, 2026
Last checkedAugust 12, 2026
Listed for4 days
HostingResidential / ISP
CountryRO Romania
NetworkAVAHOHST

Uptime & downtime

3%uptime over 3 tracked days · 97% downtime
30 days agoToday
Up Partial Down No checkTracking since Jul 10

3

Days tracked

168

Checks run

97%

Downtime

3

Down days

How this one compares

It was one of the good ones, for 4 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 3,760 proxies answering right now, the middle of the pack answers 16.4% of the checks we send it.

22%

of 429 checks answered

median 16.4%

Pool median 16.4%. 85.120.255.185:8899 is in the better half.

429

real connection attempts

Each one opens a socket and waits up to 90 seconds. Slow and dead look identical if you stop listening early.

4

days from first sighting to last answer

Of the 192,781 free proxies we have watched stop working, half were gone within 28 days of us first seeing them.

The record on 85.120.255.185:8899Every date HProxy holds for this one endpoint, in order.
  1. July 10, 2026

    First listed by our sources

    Published as a working proxy by 45 of the public lists HProxy tracks. Being listed is a claim, not a test.

  2. July 14, 2026

    Stopped answering

    It answered our checks for 4 days before it went quiet.

  3. July 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.

  4. August 12, 2026

    Most recent re-test

    HProxy has opened 429 real connections to this endpoint in total. The sweep reaches every address in the database roughly once every 24 hours.

85.120.255.185:8899 answered for 4 days and has been re-tested 429 times in total. It is still in the rotation in case it comes back.
Source: HProxy verification engine · hproxy.comProxy.

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.

What a normal free proxy looks likeTwo distributions from HProxy's own checks rather than from anybody's marketing page. Tails trimmed at the 5th and 95th percentile.

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.

Proxies that diedmedian 28 days
0204060

Middle halfMedianFull range

Half of the free proxies we have watched stop working were gone within 28 days of us first seeing them.

How quickly one answers

Response time on the last successful check, across the 3,760 proxies answering right now.

Live free proxiesmedian 2,858ms
05,00010k15k20k
The spread runs from 436ms to 15,873ms across the same list.
Source: HProxy verification engine · hproxy.comProxy.

Continuous monitoring

How HProxy checks 85.120.255.185:8899

HProxy has checked 85.120.255.185:8899 429 times and it answered 93 of those. Every one of those was a real connection attempt, never a lookup.

  1. 45 public sources published it

    85.120.255.185 appears in 45 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.

  2. Port 8899: Registered port range

    This port sits in the middle range, where any ordinary program can listen without special permission. The number itself carries no reserved meaning, which tells you somebody picked it on purpose instead of accepting a default.

  3. 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 85.120.255.185:8899 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.

  4. 429 checks, 93 answered

    That is 22% of the time, measured since July 10, 2026. Every one of those results, successes and failures alike, is a connection HProxy opened itself.

  5. We are still watching for it to come back

    Being archived does not stop the testing. 85.120.255.185:8899 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 85.120.255.185:8899, and nothing it does not.

First seen
July 10, 2026
Last checked
August 12, 2026
Next check due
within 24 hours
Checks run
429
Times it answered
93
Stopped answering
July 14, 2026

22%

answered 93 of 429 checks

Where this address sits

Right now our free pool holds no other free proxies on AVAHOHST, and 8 in Romania. 85.120.255.185:8899 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 AVAHOHST

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 5 addresses on AS48753, which is 0.00% of every address in the database and a small corner of the database. None of them are answering at the moment, though every one stays in the re-check rotation in case that changes.

AS48753 in the public proxy database
  • Answered before40%
  • Never answered60%
Most addresses published on this network never worked. That is the normal shape of a scraped proxy list, and it is only visible because every one of them was actually tested.Source: HProxy verification engine
The networks that host the most free proxiesAddresses in HProxy's public proxy list, by network. AS48753 is marked.
  1. 1LimitedNetwork-ASAS213790227,266
  2. 2Amazon.com, Inc.AS1650926,351
  3. 3Cloudflare, Inc.AS1333522,185
  4. 4SECURED SERVERS LLCAS2045419,475
  5. 5Cloudflare, Inc.AS20924214,136
  6. 6Alibaba (US) Technology Co., Ltd.AS4510211,657
  7. 7GloboTech CommunicationsAS3666611,542
  8. 8ChinanetAS41348,367
  9. AS48753 sits outside the 250 largest networks we hold.
Source: HProxy verification engine · hproxy.comProxy.
Is 85.120.255.185:8899 a proxy? It was: a free proxy in Romania that answered 22% of 429 checks before going dark, recorded by HProxy.
85.120.255.185:8899 at a glance. Its record stays published even though the address is no longer usable.

Questions about 85.120.255.185:8899

Is 85.120.255.185:8899 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 14, 2026. We still re-test it periodically in case it returns.

Was 85.120.255.185 ever actually a proxy?

Yes. We ran 429 checks against it and it answered 93 of them, about 22% of the time, over 4 days on our list.

What is the hostname for 85.120.255.185?

85.120.255.185 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 85.120.255.185 hosted?

Jakarta, Jakarta, Romania, AVAHOHST (AS48753). 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 AVAHOHST?

None other than 85.120.255.185:8899 at the moment. AS48753 (AVAHOHST) has no other free proxies live in our pool right now, though that changes as we re-verify.

Are there other free proxies in Romania?

Yes, 8 free proxies are exiting from Romania in our pool right now. If this address is not usable, that list is the place to look for a working one.

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