InetAton

Converts the IP address from the IPv4 numbers-and-dots notation into a "hostlong" in network byte order.

This is an elixir port of an erlang inet_aton snippet made available as a package.

Installation

This package can be installed by adding inet_aton to your list of dependencies in mix.exs:

def deps do
  [
    {:inet_aton, "~> 0.2.0"}
  ]
end

Usage

require InetAton

ip = "127.0.0.1"

InetAton.convert(ip)  # 2130706433 (hostlong)

InetAton.get_bytes_in_network_byte_order(ip) # <<1, 0, 0, 127>>