JDBC Numeric Overflow / IP address conversion

Question

Hi Folks;
I am using an application that imports data via a JDBC connection to an instance. It bombs anytime I try to pull over large NUMBER values. Specifically, I have numeric representations of IP addresses. (For example a stored value of 3520061480 converts to "209.207.224.40")
When I try to pull this data, I get numeric overflow errors. Interestingly, if I use either ODBC or OLEDB there is not a problem, which is why I am focusing on the JDBC issue.
They may be coming from jdbc or SOAP.
Dat::getData: SOAP getData call failed
     Error:      -2147467259 (0x80004005)
               Unspecified error
     Job ID:      [178294c0-99d0-11d7-7d8d-00108db889b7]
     timeout:      [60]
     Code:      [Server.SQLFailure]
     String:      [Failed to get data: Numeric Overflow]
     StackTraceTop:      [unknown]
Dat::getData: SOAP getData call failed
     Error:      -2147467259 (0x80004005)
               Unspecified error
     Job ID:      [178294c0-99d0-11d7-7d8d-00108db889b7]
     timeout:      [60]
     Code:      [Server.SQLFailure]
     String:      [Failed to get data: Numeric Overflow]
     StackTraceTop:      [unknown]
Unspecified error
Two questions:
1) Are there known issues along these lines for large numbers?
2) MySQL and Perl both have built-in functions for converting from a numeric representation of an ip address to the ascii notation. (Looks like
SELECT INET_NTOA(3520061480);
-> "209.207.224.40"
Does anyone know of an analogous function for Oracle that can be called from SQL? Do I need to write my own function? It would seem that someone has done this somewhere....
Thanks!

Answer 1

Probably being clever but he just explained it more.
My original interpretation was wrong so no question
anymore.
I think I now need to remember how to convert things
to bits!I wouldn't recommend this approach, but if you want to do it, or have no choice, here you go.
public static void main(String[] args) {
     String IP = "127.6.34.2";
     String [] quads = IP.split("[.]");
     byte [] ipbytes = new byte[4];
     int i = 0;
     int ip = 0;
     for(String q : quads)
         ipbytes[i] = Byte.valueOf(q);
         ip = (ip << 8) | ipbytes[i++];
     System.out.println("String in : " + IP + "\nIP out : " + ip);
     String [] rev = new String[4];
     for(i = 0; i < 4; i++)
         rev[i] = String.valueOf((ip >> (i * 8)) & 0xff);
     for(String ip_rev : rev)
         System.out.println(ip_rev);
    }~Tim