Coming up with a unique MySQL server-id

The server-id, is used in replication to give each master and slave a unique identity. For each server participating in replication, you should pick a positive integer in the range from 1 to 2^32 – 1 to act as that server's ID. To come up with this id convert the IP address of the server to an integer as follows IP address 10.8.208.31 First Octet: 10 Second Octet: 8 Third Octet: 208 Fourth Octet: 31 (first octet * 256^3) + (second octet * 256^2) + (third octet * 256) + (fourth octet) server-id = (10 * 16777216) + (8 * 65536) + (208 * 256) + (31) server-id = 168349727