Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable content-type: text/html; charset="utf-8" X-RT-Original-Encoding: utf-8 Content-Length: 2689 I thought the G in DIG  stood for ‘grepper’ as in to use the grep utility.

Am I wrong?

On Jul 15, 2017, at 1:42 AM, Jeremy Bicha via RT <bind9-confidential@isc.org> wrote:


Fri Jul 14 23:42:34 2017: Request 45559 was acted upon.
Transaction: Ticket created by jbicha@ubuntu.com
      Queue: bind9-confidential
    Subject: Modernize 'dig' acronym expansion
      Owner: Nobody
 Requestors: jbicha@ubuntu.com
     Status: new
Ticket <URL: https://bugs.isc.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=45559 >
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I believe the acronym for 'dig' is needlessly sexual and offensive.
Let's update the acronym.

Compare these definitions:
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/groper
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/getter

I have a patch I'll submit once a bug number has been assigned.

Thanks,
Jeremy Bicha



Victoria Risk
Internet Systems Consortium
vicky@isc.org