[SR-Users] ip address fields

[Richard Fuchs]

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

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