Unintuitive IPv6 address search in Screened IPs

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It’s not very easily possible to search for an IPv6 address in Screened IPs:

This image displays a "Logs & screening" management interface where IP addresses are monitored and configurations can be set to allow or block access, with some currently set to allow. (Captioned by AI)
This image displays a "Logs & screening" management interface where IP addresses are monitored and configurations can be set to allow or block access, with some currently set to allow. (Captioned by AI)1389×1020 102 KB

The screenshot shows a feature for watching IP addresses, displaying "2001" in an input field with "Export," "New," "Allow," and "Add" buttons, along with the message "No results found." (Captioned by AI)
The screenshot shows a feature for watching IP addresses, displaying "2001" in an input field with "Export," "New," "Allow," and "Add" buttons, along with the message "No results found." (Captioned by AI)1393×147 10 KB

This image displays a user interface for managing logs and screening features, where no results are found for the specific IP address 2001:db8:666. (Captioned by AI)
This image displays a user interface for managing logs and screening features, where no results are found for the specific IP address 2001:db8:666. (Captioned by AI)549×369 30.9 KB

Contrast this with the IPv4 behaviour:

This image displays a logs and screening dashboard showing a list of IP addresses being blocked. (Captioned by AI)
This image displays a logs and screening dashboard showing a list of IP addresses being blocked. (Captioned by AI)428×786 19.2 KB

Maybe if we detect we only have a partial address we can do a simple string comparison as well to make it more intuitive?

discourse(prod)> ScreenedIpAddress.all.filter{ _1.ip_address.to_s.starts_with? '2001' }.pluck(:ip_address)
=> 
[#<IPAddr: IPv6:2001:0db8:0666:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000/ffff:ffff:ffff:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000>,
 #<IPAddr: IPv6:2001:0db8:0666:0000:0000:0000:1234:5678/ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff>,
 #<IPAddr: IPv6:2001:0db8:0666:0000:0000:0000:0000:0001/ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff>]
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