What resolves a website URL to an IP address? DNS Sever
That's not a URL. Its a IP Address.
In information technology, DNS stands for "Domain Name Service." It translates URL addresses such as "answers.com" into octal IP addresses like 192.41.64.65.
IP address is a special order of digits which uniquelly identifying computer in network. URL is understandable name for people which corresponds to certain IP address. It's not easy for most people to remember IP address but much easier to remembers URLs which have usually really simple name which not hard to remember. You can call website either by URL or by IP address.
An IP address is a series of numbers used to identify a domain name or certain computer online. A URL is the address of a website online.
You can save the URL under favorites. Also, if you know the IP address of a Web page, you can use the IP directly. The URL is only supposed to be a convenient "shortcut" for an IP address. To find out an IP address of a certain destination, open a command window and give the ping command; for example: ping www.google.com.
It stands for Uniform Resource Locator. Something like http://www.wiki.answers.com. When enterred into, say, a browser, I believe it is the DNS server that translates it into an IP address, such as 67.196.156.25. Poke around www.whois.com for more.
what type of zone takes human-readable FQDNs and translates them into IP addresses
DNS provides mapping of ip addresses to name. DNS is short from of Domain name system . DNS provides name to Ip address and that name is called as URL.
Computers don't have URLs, they have IP addresses. And yes, you can get someone else's IP address.
NAT (Network Address Translation) A service that translates a private IP address to a public IP address in packets destined for the internet, then translates the public IP address in the reply to the private address.
URL and IP address are not the same thing, iP is Internet Protocol, a protocol used for communicating data across a packet-switched internetwork using the Internet Protocol Suite, also referred to as TCP/IP. Uniform Resource Locator (URL) is a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) that specifies where an identified resource is available and the mechanism for retrieving it. In popular usage and in many technical documents and verbal discussions it is often incorrectly used as a synonym for URI, The best-known example of a URL is the "address" of a web page on the World Wide Web, e.g. http://www.harddiskdriverepair.com. and its ip is 216.65.21.62, on this ip there may be have many different domain[url].