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What Is My IP Address?

The public address your traffic leaves from right now, plus the network it belongs to, a rough location and the reverse DNS name.

YOUR CONNECTION

Your public IP address

IPv4
216.73.216.253
Full lookup

Network (ISP / host)
AMAZON-02
AS number
AS16509
Approximate location
Columbus, Ohio, United States
Announced prefix
216.73.216.0/22
Reverse DNS (PTR)
None set
Browser
Not recognised
User agent
Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; [email protected])

Nothing here is saved by the tool. The page is built for this one request from a database on the VPSLake server and is never cached, so nobody else sees your address. Like any web server we keep standard short-lived access logs.

Location is an estimate for the network block, not your street address. Network data: iptoasn.com. IP Geolocation by DB-IP, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Database updated 2026-10-17.

HOW TO USE IT

Find and use your IP

There is nothing to type. Opening the page is the lookup.

  1. 1

    Open the page from the device you care about

    Your laptop, your phone on mobile data, or a browser inside a remote desktop session each show their own exit address.

  2. 2

    Copy the address

    Select Copy IP. An address with dots is IPv4; one with colons is IPv6.

  3. 3

    Check the network line

    If it names your VPN, proxy or cloud provider instead of your ISP, your traffic is going through that service.

  4. 4

    Use it in your allow-list

    Paste it into a firewall rule, an SSH or RDP restriction, a database access list or a support ticket. For any other address, open IP Lookup.

Locking a server down to your IP

The most common reason server admins look up their own address is to restrict access. A rule such as ufw allow from 203.0.113.7 to any port 22, a Windows Firewall scope on port 3389, or a MySQL user bound to one host all need the public address shown above, not the 192.168.x.x address your computer reports.

Home and mobile connections usually get a new address after a router restart, so an allow-list built on a dynamic IP can lock you out later. Keep a second way in, such as your provider's console, before you tighten anything.

IPv4, IPv6 and why you may have both

Many connections are dual-stack. When both work, browsers usually prefer IPv6, so this page shows an IPv6 address while an IPv4-only server sees a different, IPv4 one. Mobile operators also share one IPv4 address between many customers through carrier-grade NAT.

If a firewall rule does not seem to match you, check which family the service listens on and add a rule for the other family too.

Checking a server's outbound IP

A VPS often sends traffic from a different address than the one you connect to, for example behind NAT or a floating IP. From the server's shell, run curl -4 https://vpslake.com/what-is-my-ip (or -6) to print only the address. Add ?format=json for the network and location as JSON.

On Windows Server use (Invoke-WebRequest https://vpslake.com/what-is-my-ip?format=text).Content in PowerShell.

What an IP address reveals

An address points to a network and a rough area, usually the right country and often a nearby city. It does not reveal your name or home. Only the provider that assigned it can link it to a subscriber, and it normally needs a legal reason to do so.

Websites also see the browser details listed above. A VPN or proxy replaces the address, but not the browser fingerprint.

Before you restrict access by IP

Confirm the address from the device that will connect, add the rule alongside your existing access rather than replacing it, and test from a second session before closing the first. If your ISP changes the address, you will need your provider's web console or rescue mode to get back in.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

What Is My IP FAQ

Your computer shows its private LAN address, such as 192.168.1.20 or 10.0.0.5. Your router translates that to one public address before traffic reaches the internet. Remote servers, firewalls and websites only ever see the public one shown here.
Your connection supports both and the browser chose IPv6. A server that only listens on IPv4 will see your IPv4 address instead. Run curl -4 https://vpslake.com/what-is-my-ip from the same network to print the IPv4 one, then allow both addresses if needed.
On most home broadband and all mobile data, yes: the address can change when the router reconnects or the phone switches towers. Business lines and servers usually have a fixed address. If you rely on an IP allow-list, ask your ISP for a static IP or connect through a server with a fixed one.
Location databases map address blocks to the city where the provider registers or routes them. Country is nearly always right; the city can be off, especially on mobile networks that route traffic through a few regional hubs.
The VPN or proxy exit address. The network line will name the VPN provider or the data centre it rents from. If you expected your ISP, the tunnel is active; if you expected the VPN, it is not routing this browser.
The tool does not save your address or the lookup, and the page is sent with no-store headers so neither your browser nor Cloudflare caches it. The web server keeps normal short-lived access logs for security, as every site does.
Yes. curl https://vpslake.com/what-is-my-ip returns only the address as plain text, and ?format=json adds the AS number, network name and location. Please keep it to occasional checks rather than polling every few seconds.