In ASIO C++ networking library you can resolve an address by creating a query object, whose constructor takes (optionally whether it’s ip4 or ip6), a “host” argument and a “service” argument. The “host” is the name of the site you want to resolve to an IP number, and the “service” (I’m guessing) is the port number. So this does a DNS lookup/request, but my understanding is that DNS queries are for looking up associations between names and IP numbers, I don’t see how the port figures into this at all.

asio::ip::tcp::resolver::query query{"www.google.com", "80"};

Adding further to my befuddlement, there’s a “query” constructor that takes just the “service”. The comment gives a little explanation:

This constructor is typically used to perform name resolution for local service binding

I don’t understand, I thought DNS lookups were for strictly for (name -> IP number) mappings.