In the last episode (Oct 13), Scott Haneda said:
> Given a IP range such as:
> 12.8.197.10 -> 12.8.197.100
>
> I want to store those 2 values in a database, before I insert a new value, I
> would like to test for the new values existence.
>
> Any idea what I should convert a IP address into in order to be able to
> operate on it with simple greater than, less than and equal to math?
INTEGER UNSIGNED. Use inet_ntoa() and inet_aton() if the language
you're using to insert/query can't convert ip addresses itself.
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Miscellaneous_functions.html#IDX1519
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Dan Nelson
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