Is 87.97.5.248:18080 a proxy? Yes, it was.
87.97.5.248:18080 was a public proxy in the HProxy free proxy pool, exiting from HU on DIGICABLE. Across 553 checks it answered 14% of the time, and it has since gone dark (last listed 2026-07-31), so it is not a usable proxy right now.
HungaryUptime & downtime
6
Days tracked
341
Checks run
89.4%
Downtime
6
Down days
Continuous monitoring
How HProxy checks 87.97.5.248:18080
HProxy has checked 87.97.5.248:18080 553 times and it answered 77 of those. Here is what each of those checks actually did.
49 public sources published it
87.97.5.248 appears in 49 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 18080: Registered port range
This port sits in the registered range, which any user-level program may listen on without special rights. It carries no reserved meaning of its own, so the number tells you the proxy was configured deliberately on a chosen port rather than on a system default.
Every check is a real connection
HProxy does not read this address off somebody else's list and pass it on. Each check opens an actual connection to 87.97.5.248:18080 and waits up to 4 seconds for the other end to complete a proxy handshake. 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.
553 checks, 77 answered
That is 14% of the time, measured since July 25, 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. 87.97.5.248:18080 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 3, 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 87.97.5.248:18080, and nothing it does not.
- First seen
- July 25, 2026
- Last checked
- August 3, 2026
- Next check due
- within 24 hours
- Checks run
- 553
- Times it answered
- 77
- Stopped answering
- July 31, 2026
14%
answered 77 of 553 checks
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Where this address sits
Right now our free pool holds no other free proxies on AS20845 right now, and 8 in Hungary. 87.97.5.248:18080 sits inside that set, so if it is not usable the pages below are where its closest alternatives are.
What HProxy holds on DIGICABLE
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 39 addresses on AS20845, which is 0.01% of every address in the database and a small corner of the database. 2 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 now5%
- Answered before31%
- Never answered64%
Questions about 87.97.5.248:18080
Is 87.97.5.248:18080 a working proxy?
No, not any more. It was a working public proxy in HProxy's free pool and has since gone dark, last listed 2026-07-31. We still re-test it periodically in case it returns.
Was 87.97.5.248 ever actually a proxy?
Yes. We ran 553 checks against it and it answered 77 of them, about 14% of the time, over 6 days on our list.
Where was 87.97.5.248 hosted?
Hungary — DIGICABLE (AS20845). 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 AS20845?
None other than 87.97.5.248:18080 at the moment. AS20845 (AS20845) has no other free proxies live in our pool right now, though that changes as we re-verify.
Are there other free proxies in Hungary?
Yes, 8 free proxies are exiting from Hungary in our pool right now, answering in 6295ms at the median. If this address is not usable, that list is the place to look for a working one.
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About this list & IP removal
Every proxy here is aggregated from publicly available sources. We do not scan or collect these IP addresses ourselves: we verify entries that are already public (live status, latency, uptime) and store nothing else about the devices behind them. The list is provided as-is, with no warranty, for lawful use only, on the basis of our legitimate interest in a free, transparent proxy directory (Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR). Never route passwords or sensitive data through a public proxy. If an IP address is yours and you'd like it removed, email legal@hproxy.com and we'll take it down (Art. 21 GDPR). Full details on the report abuse page.