I pretty much understand DNS and what it does. From my understanding, as long as there isn't a DNS server on the network then if I type \\somecomputername\ into explorer then I shouldn't be able to ...

What's the easiest way on a home network to have a 'simple DNS?' i.e. I've got a bunch of servers that I'd like to assign static IPs to and have some server tell the rest of my network where machine1 ...