How should ip2long converted IP's be stored in MySQL?

Question

I don't know enough about the function, or ip's, to determine how my column structure should be for storing this. Any suggestions?

Answer 1

Simply use an unsigned INT field for it.

Also see http://lists.mysql.com/cluster/2781 for a discussion about it.

Answer 2

Using INT is fine when you're dealing with IPv4 addresses. However 128-bits long IPv6 can't be stored as INT or even BIGINT.

1. How to store IPv6-compatible address in a relational database
2. How to convert IPv6 from binary for storage in MySQL
3. http://www.google.com/search?client=opera&rls=en&q=storing+ipv6+mysql&sourceid=opera&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8