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

function IpAddressToLong(ip){
  return ip.split('.').map((octet, index, array) => {
      return parseInt(octet) * Math.pow(256, (array.length - index - 1));
    }).reduce((prev, curr) => {
      return prev + curr;
  });
}

Taken from repo