Use 'ip' type for ipv6 fields in ES 5+

Registered by Steve McLellan

Elasticsearch 5 now supports IPv6 natively. We map ipv6 fields to 'string' currently but we get much better usability by using the IP type where available. It should be possible to detect the ES version before applying mappings.

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Drafter:
Steve McLellan
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Steve McLellan
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Accepted for pike
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