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0 pointsjrockway15y ago0 comments

A 15 byte IP (pretending all IPs are made of four 3 digit numbers)

An IP address is just a 32 digit binary number. 4 bytes, not 15. The dotted quad notation is just to help the humans typing them in.

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mkr-hn15y ago

I was thinking in terms of most logs I've seen where it's stored as text.

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