It would be useful, if CIDR notation is supported for networkl/ip ranges.
In apache, a config like this is working:
order deny,allow
deny from all
allow from 10.0.0.0/8
Here, it rejects my test ip 10.100.4.2 which clearly is covered by 10.0.0.0/8 . Further masking network bits up to 10.100.4.0/24 did not work either.
But adding the single ip 10.100.4.2 indeed worked. So I assume, CIDR notation is not implemented.