Our 'What is my IP' tool keeps showing a weird public IP address, any ideas?

hey everyone, so we just rolled out our 'What is my IP Address' tool on the site, thought it was pretty slick for users to quickly check their connection info. everything seemed fine in dev, you know?

but then, when testing live, it's consistently showing a totally unexpected (and wrong!) public IP address. like, not even close to what my actual internet protocol address is or what other tools report. it's driving me a bit crazy, honestly.

Troubleshooting Attempts (and Fails):

• checked server logs, no obvious errors there.
• tried running it on different browsers, even incognito – same weird IP.
• compared results with other 'what is my ip' sites, they all show my *actual* IP.
• even restarted the server, thinking maybe a cached network config or something. nope.
• looked for any proxy settings on the server side, couldn't find anything obvious messing with the request.

i'll include a fake 'console output' snippet here to show what it's returning vs. what it should be, just to illustrate the madness:

// Fake Console Output Example
My Tool IP: 10.0.0.50 (definitely not my public IP)
Expected IP: 203.0.113.42 (my actual public IP)

anyone run into this before with web tools reporting incorrect public IPs? is there some obscure server config or reverse proxy thing i'm totally missing? any pointers would be super appreciated before i pull all my hair out.