IP-addresses stored as int results in overflow?

Question

I\'m writing a chat-server in node.js, and I want to store connected users IP-addresses in a mysql database as (unsigned) integers. I have written a javascript method to convert

Answer 1

Try this solution, it might help:

function IpToInteger(ipAddr)
{
    var parts = ipAddr.split('.');
    return (((parts[0] ? parts[0] << 24 : 0) |
             (parts[1] ? parts[1] << 16 : 0) |
             (parts[2] ? parts[2] << 8  : 0) |
             (parts[3])) >>> 0);
}