No more IP encoding?

hater · Post by **hater** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 9:48 am

Unless I totally overlooked it, it appears that Olympus has ditched the idea of encoding user IP's in the DB. What's the philosophy behind NOT encoding them now, and encoding them in the first place?

Or, I may just be totally wrong and it is encoding them and I'm a huge retard.

dhn · Post by **dhn** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 2:24 pm

hater wrote: Unless I totally overlooked it, it appears that Olympus has ditched the idea of encoding user IP's in the DB. What's the philosophy behind NOT encoding them now, and encoding them in the first place?

Or, I may just be totally wrong and it is encoding them and I'm a huge retard.

They were not encoded but stored hexadecimally. It wouldn't make sense to encode them.

code reader · Post by **code reader** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 2:36 pm

dhn wrote: They were not encoded but stored hexadecimally. It wouldn't make sense to encode them.

this is more a teminology issue. hater did not say they were encrypted, but rather encoded. seeing that the function that does the packing in phpbb 2.0 is called "encode_ip()", i think his terminology is ok.
as to the original question: if i read the code correctly, the ip address is not encoded any more. moreover, it is stored as a varchar(40), which is way more than you would need for an IPv4 address (at most 15). this means that it can work now with IPv6 addresses, and maybe other address formats (if there are such other formats), as long as it is shorter than 40 chars.

hater · Post by **hater** » Thu Dec 08, 2005 11:50 pm

Thanks for the answers guys, much appreciated.

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