Is AES-256 consistent? I ran into an issue with my server that made me ask a question - is AES-256 encryption reliably consistent?

So my node server, to avoid DDOS vulnerabilities while keeping user data anonymous, takes an IP from the request, encrypts it, and stores the number of times it has made a request in the last 24 hours.

It checks if the user had made a request in the last 24 hours by re-encrypting the IP using the exact same password. It then, takes that and matches it with the first stored IP.

But then:

Error: Can't find data: /ipcount/d00c526612cec9e5d3e201af35993c75. Stopped at ipcount


d00c526612cec9e5d3e201af35993c75 should be the encrypted string, but the database is acting like it's never seen it before. So can I have it encrypt consistently with the same password?

Thanks in advance.
AES-256 is a function from a 256-bit key and a 128-bit plaintext block to a 128-bit ciphertext block.  Same key and plaintext, same ciphertext.

But it is unlikely that your application uses AES-256 directly—most applications don't, because most applications are concerned with encrypting messages, not with permuting the set of strings of 128 bits.  From the information you've given, there's no way for us to know how you use AES-256, or even if you do use it directly, whether there's an application bug that just causes some wrong IP address to be stored or retrieved or causes some IP addresses to be dropped on the floor.