Datatype Inet and Searching

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font-family:Arial">Dear Users,</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
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font-family:Arial">I am very new to using the inet data type and I have a database with a list of CIDRs in
it</span></font><pclass="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; 
font-family:Arial">And I was hoping to be able to do some kind of select statement that would pull the
record</span></font><pclass="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; 
font-family:Arial">That the IP given is located in for example. If in my database I have a record like:</span></font><p
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font-family:Arial">Id          cidr                   name</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial"
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font-family:Arial">1          10.0.0.0/30        user1</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial"
size="2"><spanstyle="font-size:10.0pt; 
font-family:Arial">2          10.0.0.4/30        user2</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial"
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font-family:Arial">3          10.0.0.8/30        user3</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial"
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font-family:Arial">I was hoping to be able to do something like:</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial"
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font-family:Arial">Select * from mytable where cidr <<=’10.0.0.5’</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font
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font-family:Arial">And the database would return only record 2 since it knows that 10.0.0.5 is contained only within
record2.</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; 
font-family:Arial">I can’t seem to figure out the correct syntax to make this type of query happen. Any help would
greatly</span></font><pclass="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; 
font-family:Arial">Be appreciated.</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
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font-family:Arial">Devin Atencio</span></font></div>