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

You are right but in MySQL 5.7 it is possible to store IPV6 in decimal format. also you can convert to ipv6 to decimal and vice versa:

MySQL 5.0 IPV4

select INET_ATON('192.168.0.1') returns int value: 3232235521

MySQL 5.7 IPV6

select cast(conv(substr(HEX(INET6_ATON('0:0:0:0:0:FFFF:C0A8:0001')), 1, 16), 16, 10) as decimal(65))*18446744073709551616 + 
       cast(conv(substr(HEX(INET6_ATON('0:0:0:0:0:FFFF:C0A8:0001')), 17, 16), 16, 10) as decimal(65)) 

returns bigint value: 281473913978881