Wildcard IP Banning with MySQL

Question

I\'m trying to implement an IP banning system into my web app using MySQL, i know i can do it using .htaccess but that\'s not neat to me.

Basically my curre

Answer 1

Quick'n'Dirty, but cannot use proper indexes:

SELECT ip FROM ip_blacklist WHERE ? LIKE REPLACE(ip,'*','%') LIMIT 1