That's true but you still have to know the internal domain name :-)

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Well for DNS you do not have to be

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On Mar 25, 2010, at 8:12 PM, "Butturini, Russell" 
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> These solutuons are useful, but you're assuming a machine joined to
> the domain, running in the context of an authenticated user session,
> with knowledge of the internal domain name.
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> Indeed.
> Similar to ethe cho %logonserver% method is:
>
> Systeminfo | findstr /I /C:"logon server"
> But a nice way is to get it from dns:
> Nslookup -type=srv _ldap._tcp.pdc._msdcs.<domainname>
> Will give you the same answer as logonserver, to see all DC's change
> pdc to just dc. I got 8 DCs doing this at work all of which I know are
> dcs
> -Josh
>
> On Mar 25, 2010, at 5:07 PM, k41zen <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> depends on how auth'd you are to the domain I guess, but dsquery is
>> very useful too
>>
>> http://www.computerperformance.co.uk/Logon/DSquery.htm
>>
>> http://tactech.net/2009/09/28/how-to-search-for-a-domain-controller/
>>
>> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc732885%28WS.10%29.aspx
>>
>>
>> On 25 Mar 2010, at 10:54, Robin Wood wrote:
>>
>>> Hi
>>> I'm wondering what techniques people are using to detect domain
>>> controllers when they get on networks. I've asked a few people and
>>> the
>>> standard answer seems to be to look for the DNS server as the PDC is
>>> usually also acting as the DNS server. Has anyone else got any
>>> better
>>> or alternative techniques they use?
>>>
>>> Robin
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