What is my IP address?
Understand public and private addresses and what an IP check can reveal.
The service trusts forwarded headers only when they come from vetted sources; otherwise it uses the direct connection details to avoid spoofing.
Private or local addresses stay within this session; the page only displays the IP you used to reach this service.
Yes. Send a GET request to the root endpoint with Accept: text/plain or the query parameter format=txt to receive a plain IP response.
Understand public and private addresses and what an IP check can reveal.
Learn how A and AAAA records map a domain to one or several current addresses.
Compare address formats, dual-stack connections and the role of NAT.