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in reply to Updating a binary value in Net::LDAP

If we call it an "octet string", instead of "binary", a concatenated octet string can be generated and stored like this (untested): 
use Socket qw( inet_aton );
...
   fileStore => join ('', map {inet_aton $_} @mynets),

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This will be a concatenated string of 32-bit binary IP addresses (assuming IPv4), and can be written to a file.

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