How do I get the full IP rather than ::1?

Question

I have wrote this to get client's ip address but it just gets this ::1 instead of 172.16.0.129. I want to get Ipv4 version of the ip. How do I do this?

return HttpContext.Current.Request.Params["HTTP_CLIENT_IP"] ?? HttpContext.Current.Request.UserHostAddress;

Answer 1

In IPv6 ::1 means the localhost. Your machine might well have the IP 172.16.0.129 but it's also perfectly acceptable for it to refer to itself as ::1

Try your request from another machione (I suspect this request came from the same machine as the server is sitting on)