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Originally posted by Bulworth
Show me a site with 50K verified open proxies - I ain't talking proxies from 6 months ago, or hosts that happen to be listening on a proxy port but aren't really proxies - and I'll show you my dick. OK, I won't really show my dick, since page-widening posts are generally considered rude.. ;)
Seriously though, I doubt there's any site out there with 50K proxies, not even the DNSBLs have that many listed (we feed into the Osirusoft DNSBL, btw).
There are some bullshitter sites like
a) tools.rosinstrument.com - OK, do you really trust a site whose scripts are so fucked up that they still report the current year as "103"? Y2K was 3 years ago. If they haven't fixed that yet, I wonder what else they haven't fixed... Like, oh, maybe, their proxy testing/scanning engine...
b) atomintersoft.com - they claim "422210 proxy servers in database" but you notice they don't bother to mention how many are open. There aren't 420K open proxies in the world right now, let alone in a single database. Try using 10 or so of the "proxies" listed at atomintersoft as proxies in your browser. Once you get past the first page of recently checked proxies, half of em won't work. Straight from page 2 of their site,
"149.156.9.242:8080 w3cache.cyf-kr.edu.pl Transparent No 3/30/2003 9:29:46 PM 96.77"
...Well guess what:
$ telnet 149.156.9.242 8080
Trying 149.156.9.242...
telnet: connect to address 149.156.9.242: Connection refused
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host
There are a lot of bullshitters out there when it comes to proxies. I ain't one of em.
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I wasn't going to say anything, but OK.
9K is nothing. I can have 50,000 working proxies by this weekend without even breaking a sweat. It's no trick to scan several thousand per day on DSL and there are plenty of sites out there with working proxy lists updated daily. They're all free, too. If you add in certain pay services, the list gets even bigger.
I don't know either of the sites you mentioned in your post, but I do know of others who update often and have actual working proxies. Like I said, though, even raw scanning will produce tons of open proxies, most of which will probably not be on your 9K list. When you factor in how fast proxies die and fresh ones get spread around, it's pretty much an impossible task to keep up.
A service like yours is an OK place to start, but it isn't a miracle cure. For the record, the most verified working proxies I have ever had at one time is about 140,000. I will note, though, that about 1/2 - 2/3 of them were not <B>really</B> anonymous (spilled IPs), and many of them were sequential (several proxies running on one server or group of servers), but still...
SpaceAce
P.S. to people reading this post: Unless I know you, please don't ask where to get them or how to scan them. I am not going to tell you. We have enough problems, already. The last time I participated in a discussion like this on a message board my ICQ went nuts with people wanting proxies.