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Name resolution is a function of DNS (Domain Name System). Computers do not use names to communicate with each other in TCP/IP networks or on the internet. Instead, they use IP Addresses. An IP Address is a series of numbers (IPv4). For example, the IP Address for this site (wiki.answers.com) is 67.196.156.25. That is not exactly a number that most humans will find easy to remember. In order to be able to type http://wiki.answers.com/ into your browser and get to the site successfully, your computer has to contact a DNS Server. The DNS Server will take the name you pass it, and return an IP address. Your computer will then use this IP Address to communicate with the remote web server, and then your browser can display the page. Without DNS, you would have to know the IP address of every server you wanted to connect to.

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