Doing an OR, IN, or Contains Search

[#1]

My organization makes heavy use of macfilteraddress objects in Infoblox. I'm working on a project that allows my users to search Infoblox using device hostnames, or partial hostnames to return a list of objects, and return the status of the macfilteraddress (does it exist in IB, when does it expire, etc.). I'm using information from our SCCM instance to generate a list of MAC addresses for the devices requested, but when it comes time to search IB I have to search one MAC address at a time, which is fine for a small handful of devices, but when the search returns 10's or 100's of results it gets painful fast.

My question then is this, can I pass a list of MAC addresses and have IB search for all of them in a single query, much like using the IN keyword in a SQL query or the .Contains method in LINQ (or all the .NET folks ), or is searching each address individually the only way?

I'm using API version 2.9.

[#2]

Unfortunately, none of the filters supported by the API endpoints support any sort of logical OR or set based searches. You're stuck either making a request for each one individually or querying all results and filtering them client side.