On 10/22/12 14:19, Juha Heinanen wrote:
to me it makes sense to store addresses only in
canonical format to
database in order to make sure that address comparison can be made
uniquely.
Using the string representation of an address for anything other than to
provide a human readable version of it is not a good idea. That's true
not only for IPv6 addresses:
http://3239475010/ (doesn't work in IE IIRC).
If you want to compare addresses in code, use raw 128-bit addresses.
cheers