If the pattern is an IP address followed by a slash and a mask length (for example 10.11.42.0/24), it is matched against the IP address of the subject host under the given mask. This allows, an entire network of hosts to be included (or excluded) by a single item. The mask uses CIDR notation; it specifies the number of address bits that must match, starting from the most significant end of the address.
Note: The mask is not a count of addresses, nor is it the high number of a range of addresses. It is the number of bits in the network portion of the address. The above example specifies a 24-bit netmask, so it matches all 256 addresses in the 10.11.42.0 network. An item such as
Code:
192.168.23.236/31
matches just two addresses, 192.168.23.236 and 192.168.23.237. A mask value of 32 for an IPv4 address is the same as no mask at all; just a single address matches.
I believe I remember now that the reason I separated the name lists from the IP# lists (with _ip on the end, was because when I missed them it didn't work that way. My recollection now is that works exactly as you and duke28 would expect as long as the list is only IP#s in the proper notation.