Searching for IP addresses in text with Elasticsearch

We recently implemented a search solution for a customer using Elasticsearch. Most of their requirements were fairly standard, however they also wanted to be able to search for IP addresses embedded in the document text, using a flexible and precise search syntax, e.g. given the following document fragment:

    ... the API can be accessed at 167.87.3.201 on port 8700 ...

the following searches should all find the document:

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