On 18 July 2011 16:56, Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd]
<cal.leem...@simplicitymedialtd.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi,
> I have created a ModelField called RealIPAddressField.
> It stores the IP address in integer form, meaning the lookups on large
> tables are much faster:
> http://djangosnippets.org/snippets/2493/
> @django-developers - Do you think there is any possibility of this getting
> included into the core?

>From a quick look, it doesn't seem to support IPv6 (which is a real
problem in year 2011 when all IPv4 addresses are allocated). So I
would be -1 on it. There is also the problem of signed int.

PS. Cross-posting like this to django-users and django-developers is
probably not a good idea as people on django-users will send emails
here by accident.

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