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When you type a web address, which server converts that domain name into an IP address?
AMail server
BProxy server
CDNS server
DFile server
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: C. DNS server
1. Every server hosting a website has an IP address, but numbers are hard to remember.
2. Domain names are therefore mapped to those IP addresses.
3. Turning a domain name into its IP address is called domain name resolution.
4. It is done through a server called the DNS server, which the browser's HTTP request approaches first.
5. Once the IP address comes back, the page itself is fetched and loaded.
_Source: NCERT Computer Science Class 12, Ch 10 'Computer Networks', S10.8.1 DNS Server_
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