Question

which protocol converts an alphabetic web address into a machine friendly IP address

Answer 1

DNS converts an alphabetical web address into a machine friendly IP address.

Answer 2

DNS or Domain Name system is the protocol that converts and alphabetic web address into a machine friendly IP address.

The computer does not understand the language which we input.

It genuinely requires binary identifiers in order to translate it into the machine language.

Hence, the work of DNS is to translate the domain name into the computer based IP address.