FEATURE REQUEST: Add a flag and feedback to clear all existing local records

[iamGBOX]

Detailed Description

It would be convenient to be able to use a flag on checkip to clear all existing records to check a set of addresses totally fresh, rather than running checkip -f or manually deleting the json records.

Context

This would permit a complete clear of all existing records from within the tool, which could streamline new investigations.

Possible Implementation

checkip -clear

Are you sure you want to clear ALL existing local records? (Y/N)

Local records cleared

Your Environment

• Version used: Current
• Operating System and version (desktop or mobile): macOS 11.4

[t-a-y-l-o-r]

I could see an argument for adding this in as a flag like:

checkip --fresh -ip 8.8.8.8 would create a fresh record. Would behave similar to checkip --force -ip 8.8.8.8 but would also be a destructive action.

could also see:
checkip --no-record -ip 8.8.8.8 if you want to avoid adding this ip to the record if you know you scan it a lot.

Long term adding all this into the config is planned eventually. But currently have no timeline for that

[iamGBOX]

I think there's definite utility in both of those options, the, checkip --fresh -ip 8.8.8.8 and the checkip --no-record -ip 8.8.8.8, but I would also find the option to totally clear all local records useful, especially since the security status of records continues to become less relevant as they age.

[t-a-y-l-o-r]

In practice are you asking for:

# note! no ip given
$ checkip --delete-cache

Which would delete all local records across the board. (i.e. the record and the report)

[iamGBOX]

Yes! That's more what I was thinking of, an option to delete all local records across the board.

EDIT: A colleague suggested that I could use an alias in my shell to emulate this behaviour for now, but having that natively would be helpful.

[t-a-y-l-o-r]

sounds good. Won't be in this current set of fixes. But could easily be on the shortlist of new features after that

[t-a-y-l-o-r]

local testing went well. Just need confirmation from @iamGBOX