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+Net::Netmask parses and understands IPv4 CIDR blocks. It's built with an
+object-oriented interface. Nearly all functions are methods that operate
+on a Net::Netmask object.
+
+There are methods that provide the nearly all bits of information about
+a network block that you might want.
+
+There are also functions to put a network block into a table and then
+later lookup network blocks by IP address in that table. There are
+functions to turn a IP address range into a list of CIDR blocks. There
+are functions to turn a list of CIDR blocks into a list of IP addresses.
+
+There is a function for sorting by text IP address.