Which networking service translates a human-readable website or host name (such as www.example.com) into the numerical IP address that computers use to locate that resource on the Internet?
The Domain Name System (DNS) performs this name-resolution function by mapping host or domain names to their corresponding IP addresses. Without DNS, users would have to remember numeric addresses instead of readable names. The other protocols serve different purposes: DHCP automatically assigns IP configuration details to hosts, HTTP transfers web page data, and FTP transfers files.
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