detecting PDCs

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If you are on the network there is a good chance that the DHCP is configured to assign a default domain and alternate 
search domains
Winipcfg /all on windows - look for connection-specific DNS Suffix
Review the /etc/resolv.conf for a search entry and IP addresses for DNS servers
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-----Original Message-----
From: "Butturini, Russell" <Russell.Butturini at Healthways.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 20:12:33 
To: 'pauldotcom at mail.pauldotcom.com'<pauldotcom at mail.pauldotcom.com>
Subject: Re: [Pauldotcom] detecting PDCs

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

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Subject: Re: [Pauldotcom] detecting PDCs

Well for DNS you do not have to be

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On Mar 25, 2010, at 8:12 PM, "Butturini, Russell" <Russell.Butturini at Healthways.com
> wrote:

> 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.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: pauldotcom-bounces at mail.pauldotcom.com <pauldotcom-bounces at mail.pauldotcom.com
> >
> To: PaulDotCom Security Weekly Mailing List <pauldotcom at mail.pauldotcom.com
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> Sent: Thu Mar 25 16:36:13 2010
> Subject: Re: [Pauldotcom] detecting PDCs
>
> 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 <k41zen at live.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > 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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