What What Is My IP does
What Is My IP reads the client address that the PagesTools deployment receives through configured proxy headers. After verifying that the value is a public IPv4 or IPv6 address, it returns the address and its family in a small report.
The visible address is usually the internet-facing endpoint for the current connection. It may belong to a home router, mobile carrier, office gateway, VPN, privacy relay, or corporate proxy rather than to the device itself. Changing networks or privacy services can therefore change the result.
How to use What Is My IP
- Select Show my IP; no address needs to be entered.
- Review the public address returned for the current request.
- Check whether the family is IPv4 or IPv6.
- Disable or change a VPN only if you intentionally want to compare network exit addresses.
Important details
The server trusts configured proxy headers
The deployment must have a correctly configured reverse proxy that supplies the public client address. If that trusted value is unavailable or not public, the tool returns an error instead of guessing.
Public IP is not device identity
Many devices can share one IPv4 address through network address translation, while IPv6 privacy addressing can rotate. An IP address should not be treated as a permanent personal or device identifier.
No location is inferred
This tool reports the request address and family only. It does not infer a city, ISP, owner, threat score, or precise physical location.
Practical uses
- Confirm which public address a VPN or corporate gateway exposes.
- Provide a current address when a network administrator is troubleshooting access.
- Check whether the active connection reaches the site over IPv4 or IPv6.
Privacy and limitations
Your IP address is necessarily visible to PagesTools when you connect. This tool reads the trusted request value without sending it to a third-party IP lookup service, and its JSON response uses no-store cache headers.
The result depends on correct reverse-proxy configuration and may be unavailable in local development. It can show a VPN, carrier, office, or router exit address rather than an individual device address.