INET6_ATON

Convert an IPv6 address to binary. This function takes an IPv6 (or IPv4) address string and returns it as a VARBINARY(16) string.

Syntax

INET6_ATON(expr)

Description

Given an IPv6 or IPv4 network address as a string, returns a binary string that represents the numeric value of the address.

No trailing zone ID's or traling network masks are permitted. For IPv4 addresses, or IPv6 addresses with IPv4 address parts, no classful addresses or trailing port numbers are permitted and octal numbers are not supported.

The returned binary string will be VARBINARY(16) or VARBINARY(4) for IPv6 and IPv4 addresses respectively.

Returns NULL if the argument is not understood.

MariaDB starting with 10.5.0

Current

INET6_ATON can take INET6 as an argument.

< 10.5

Examples

SELECT HEX(INET6_ATON('10.0.1.1'));
+-----------------------------+
| HEX(INET6_ATON('10.0.1.1')) |
+-----------------------------+
| 0A000101                    |
+-----------------------------+

SELECT HEX(INET6_ATON('48f3::d432:1431:ba23:846f'));
+----------------------------------------------+
| HEX(INET6_ATON('48f3::d432:1431:ba23:846f')) |
+----------------------------------------------+
| 48F3000000000000D4321431BA23846F             |
+----------------------------------------------+

See Also

• INET6_NTOA()

• INET_ATON()

• INET6 Data Type

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