How to cast text to cidr/inet

Hello,

I am battleling around to get a text field into a cidr and inet type field.
The documentation says things like CAST(val AS text) but inet and cidr does
not seem to exist.

However the following works:
dhcp=# insert into dhcp_subnet(ipaddress) values('139.122.172/18');
INSERT 46172 1
dhcp=# select * from dhcp_subnet;id |   ipaddress    | description
----+----------------+------------- 2 | 139.122.128/18 |
(1 row)


But the copying from table to table (text to cidr) does not work.

Perhaps someone can give me some clues.

Additional information (tables, queries, results are below).

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Some additional information:
dhcp=# \d dhcp_subnet                            Table "dhcp_subnet" Attribute  |  Type   |
Modifier
-------------+---------+----------------------------------------------------
--id          | integer | not null default
nextval('dhcp_subnet_id_seq'::text)ipaddress   | cidr    |description | text    |
Indices: dhcp_subnet_id_key,        dhcp_subnet_ipaddress_idx
dhcp=# \d dhcp_subnet_hp   Table "dhcp_subnet_hp" Attribute  | Type | Modifier
-------------+------+----------ipaddress   | text |description | text |
dhcp=# INSERT INTO dhcp_subnet(
dhcp(# ipaddress,
dhcp(# description)
dhcp-# SELECT
dhcp-# ipaddress,
dhcp-# description
dhcp-# FROM dhcp_subnet_hp;
ERROR:  Attribute 'ipaddress' is of type 'cidr' but expression is of type
'text'       You will need to rewrite or cast the expression
dhcp=# INSERT INTO dhcp_subnet(
dhcp(# ipaddress,
dhcp(# description)
dhcp-# SELECT
dhcp-# CAST(ipaddress AS cidr),
dhcp-# description
dhcp-# FROM dhcp_subnet_hp;
ERROR:  Cannot cast type 'text' to 'cidr'