This page IP field type | Elasticsearch Guide [8.11] | Elastic appears to confirm that a netmask on the end of an IP address is allowable when geocoding IP addresses, e.g. 192.168.0.0/16, however we are getting this error when geocoding:
"java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: '96.231.138.0/24' is not an IP string literal.")