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Active Directory Cookbook
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Active Directory Cookbook

by Robbie Allen
September 2003
Intermediate to advanced
624 pages
15h 49m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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3.28. Finding the PDC Emulator FSMO Role Owner via DNS

Problem

You want to find the PDC Emulator for a domain using DNS.

Solution

Using a command-line interface

> nslookup -type=SRV _ldap._tcp.pdc._msdcs.<DomainDNSName>

Discussion

The PDC Emulator FSMO role is the only FSMO role that is stored in DNS. Like many of the other Active Directory-related DNS records, the PDC record is stored as an SRV record under _ldap._tcp.pdc._msdcs.<DomainDNSName> where <DomainDNSName> is the domain the PDC is in.

See Also

Recipe 3.21 for finding domain controllers via DNS

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