What does it mean to resolve whoami.akamai.net or any domain , for that matter?

[bill2]

Actual Behaviour:

Not sure what it looks like.
Google not really helping.

What does it mean to resolve whoami.akamai.net or any domain , for that matter
as mentioned in
e.g.
https://old.reddit.com/r/pihole/comments/o40quc/how_to_check_if_unbound_is_working_as_recursive/h2ewig5/

Does it mean I use my web browser and type in the url?

Or

this --- > ?

C:\Windows\System32>		nslookup whoami.akamai.net

Or ????

Please advise.

Thank you very much.

[jfb]

@bill2

What does it mean to resolve whoami.akamai.net or any domain

A DNS resolver finds the IP for that domain. This can be done with dig or nslookup, as two examples.

nslookup whoami.akamai.net
Server:         127.0.0.1
Address:        127.0.0.1#53

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:   whoami.akamai.net
Address: 70.187.28.143

dig +short whoami.akamai.net
70.187.28.143

When you type a URL into your browser, the domain is sent to a DNS resolver and the IP returned to the browser.

[bill2]

Thanks a million.