How to configure a DNS?

Workstations running Microsoft Windows attempt to register their names and their IP addresses with DNS servers, so that other machines may locate them by name and map their IP addresses to their names. This is done not by the DNS Client service, but by the DHCP Client service. (It is thus necessary to run the DHCP Client service, even if DHCP isn't being used to configure the machine, in order to dynamically register a machine's name and address for DNS lookup.) The DHCP Client service registers name and address data whenever they are changed (either manually by an administrator or automatically by the granting or revocation of a DHCP lease).