Showing posts with label AD. Show all posts
Showing posts with label AD. Show all posts

Thursday, October 8, 2015

Find Name (and IP) of Domain controller in network

You are working/discovering at a client site and you want to determine the domain controllers.
There are many many sources and methods to skin this cat. Here is a digest of a few of the best methods.

nslookup from command line
nslookup
set type=all
_ldap._tcp.dc._msdcs.DOMAIN_NAME
*probably the most standard, all you need is any Windows machine

from command line
set l                              (Lowercase "L")
*will only show the domain controller that authenticated you - does not show all domain controllers

From command line
gpresult /r
*will only show the domain controller that provided group policy to you at logon - does not show all domain controllers

From PowerShell
Import-Module ActiveDirectory
Get-ADDomainController | select name
*assumes you have RSAT and powershell installed
*only shows a domain controller not all domain controllers

My personal favorite
From command line
nstest /dclist:domain
*shows all domain controllers and their AD site