BFP-I-404: Inspectors for `cidr address contains ip address`

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https://bigfix-ideas.hcltechsw.com/ideas/BFP-I-404

Please implement new inspectors which allow one to resolve an IP address’s relationship to a CIDR address:
ip address is contained by cidr address
cidr address contains ip address

On the forum, wrangling the membership of IP addresses within ranges, and CIDR notation, is an evergreen topic. This post is often linked as a solution to when someone asks about resolving addresses to CIDR notation:
[Answers Posted] Relevance Challenge - IP Address is in which Subnet - February 2020 - #23 by JasonWalker

The addition of these inspectors would be a great help to BigFix customers and implementors for usecases such as relay affiliation, specific software deployments, _BESClient_Download_Direct settings, et al.

I’ve been meaning to post this one for a long time. :smiley:

-Andrew

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