Storing IP address in MySQL database (IPv4 AND IPv6)

Question

Ok, now I\'m aware that similar questions have probably been asked a million times but I\'m a real novice at this and I\'d really appreciate your help here.

Basically, I

Answer 1

I use VARBINARY(16) for the data type and use the MySQL function INET_ATON() to insert the IP number (which I later read using the reverse function, INET_NTOA().