From: Date: November 11 2005 9:33pm
Subject: Best Fieldtype to store IP address...
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I'm using MySQL-Cluster 5.0, and we're doing some research. 

What is everyone's opinion as to what the best fieldtype to store an IP 
address in?

varchar(16)  ?  because 16 is the max chars of an ip address...
char(16) ?
text(16)

Not quite sure how to get the best memory utilization...