An example using Set::CrossProduct

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Set::CrossProduct;

while (<DATA>) {
    chomp;
    s/\s*#.+//;
    
    my @data;
    while (/([^.]+)/g) {
        if ($1 =~ /(\d+)-(\d+)/) {
            push @data, [$1..$2];
        }
        else {
            push @data, [$1];
        }
    }
    
    for (Set::CrossProduct->new( \@data )->combinations) {
        print join(".", @$_), "\n";
    }
}

__DATA__
172.17.119.2 # Comments are here...
172.17.119.4-5 # Comments are here...
172.19-21.254.2-3 # Comments are here...
192.168.1.1-3 # Comments are here...

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