In just one run today there were a slew of Czech proxies, all on the 77.104.212.0/24 subnet, all on port 8080, all transparent, and the property of this ISP.
But with a ping time of 230+ milliseconds, nothing to write home about. I’ve used a lot of Czech proxies in the past (hotels, Internet cafes, educational institutions, et cetera), but they’ve always been faster than that. 230ms is pathetic.
And if you telnet to them they’re running good old Mikrotik, so they must be some sort of residential or public access devices.
And yes, I checked. They’ve changed the default password. Dang.
Business seems to be picking up lately. I added a new “supplier” a couple of weeks ago and it seems to be good for at least a page per day of new proxies. A lot of these are Euro Zone proxies. And a lot of them seem to be running Mikrotik Httproxy.
Coincidence?
Yeah, probably.
But it sure is nice having some perky German, Spanish, French, and Italian proxies again. It’s just like the Old Days. There’s even some UK proxies in there for the Cameroonians, who seem to have deserted me lately.
They’re not the only ones. Traffic to the List has dropped off precipitously since November. I’m down to a tenth of the traffic I had back then. That would probably piss me off if I were depending on ad revenue but I don’t so it doesn’t. These things are just cyclical. Always have been, always will.
I’ve been waiting for another Bahrain-like incident. Last summer we had the Canadian Health Care problem, which was fixed fairly fast. Then there was the Macau Madness last April. Koobface wasn’t exactly the same kind of thing, since it was a malware infection.
No, this Czech thing, like Bahrain and CHC, is more like a massive “Ooops”. Shit happens.
I don’t expect it to last and since it’s a Class C subnet I don’t expect it to spread much. Time will tell.
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