Windows Internet Name Service

Verify DNS Configuration

While reconfiguring WINS clients to stop registering of their names and using WINS servers, verify that DNS is fully configured for all clients. Once you are sure that DNS is active for all your clients, you can remove WINS servers from your network.

Clients register in DNS on the basis of their TCP/IP configuration. You can ensure this configuration in two ways:

For clients that are manually configured to use TCP/IP, add IP addresses for either primary or secondary DNS servers in the TCP/IP properties for each network connection used by the client computer.
For clients that are dynamically configured by DHCP, reconfigure options at your DHCP server (including any options configured by server, scope, or client) to distribute option code 6 to clients. This option provides to clients a list of IP addresses of DNS servers.