storing IP address as what type?

[loonatik]

when a user hits submit, his ip address is also inserted into the db. but whichever type (double, decimal, etc) i use, it always truncates the ip address. do i use text type or is there a better solution? thanks.

[Spookster]

You will probably want to use VARCHAR. Also make sure you set the size of the field large enough to handle all the characters in the IP address.