Posted by Jasen Betts on 02/17/06 11:12

On 2006-02-15, frizzle <phpfrizzle@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I'm saving ip addresses of blocked visitors into a mySQL DB.
> The function with wich i retrieve the address is below this message.
>
> What i wonder is, if it's ok to remove the dots from the ip address,
> and only
> save the numbers into the database. I assume it will be quicker to
> compare.
> But i don't know if it could mess up ip addresses. E.g. confuse
> 12.34.56.78 with 123.45.6.78

if mysql has an IP address datatype like postgresql does use that.


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Bye.
Jasen

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