Windows find name server

Searches for a string of text in a file or files, and displays lines of text that contain the specified string.

Syntax

Parameters

Parameter	Description
/v	Displays all lines that don’t contain the specified .
/c	Counts the lines that contain the specified and displays the total.
/n	Precedes each line with the file’s line number.
/i	Specifies that the search is not case-sensitive.
[/off[line]]	Doesn’t skip files that have the offline attribute set.
Required. Specifies the group of characters (enclosed in quotation marks) that you want to search for.
[ :][

] Specifies the location and name of the file in which to search for the specified string. /? Displays help at the command prompt.

Remarks

If you don’t use /i, this command searches for exactly what you specify for string. For example, this command treats the characters a and A differently. If you use /i, however, the search becomes non-case-sensitive, and it treats a and A as the same character.

If the string you want to search for contains quotation marks, you must use double quotation marks for each quotation mark contained within the string (for example, «»This string contains quotation marks»»).

If you omit a file name, this command acts as a filter, taking input from the standard input source (usually the keyboard, a pipe (|), or a redirected file) and then displays any lines that contain string.

You can type parameters and command-line options for the find command in any order.

You can’t use wildcards (* and ?) in file names or extensions that you specify while using this command. To search for a string in a set of files that you specify with wildcards, you can use this command within a for command.

If you use /c and /v in the same command line, this command displays a count of the lines that don’t contain the specified string. If you specify /c and /n in the same command line, find ignores /n.

This command doesn’t recognize carriage returns. When you use this command to search for text in a file that includes carriage returns, you must limit the search string to text that can be found between carriage returns (that is, a string that is not likely to be interrupted by a carriage return). For example, this command doesn’t report a match for the string tax file if a carriage return occurs between the words tax and file.

Examples

To display all lines from pencil.ad that contain the string pencil sharpener, type:

To find the text, «The scientists labeled their paper for discussion only. It is not a final report.» in the report.doc file, type:

To search for a set of files, you can use the find command within the for command. To search the current directory for files that have the extension .bat and that contain the string PROMPT, type:

To search your hard disk to find and display the file names on drive C that contain the string CPU, use the pipe (|) to direct the output of the dir command to the find command as follows:

Because find searches are case-sensitive and dir produces uppercase output, you must either type the string CPU in uppercase letters or use the /i command-line option with find.

How to find the name of the Enterprise Root Certificate Authority server

This article helps you to find name of the Enterprise Root Certificate Authority (CA) server.

Original product version: В Windows Server 2003
Original KB number: В 555529

Summary

The following content describes two options to find the name of the Enterprise Root Certificate Authority server.

Option 1

Sign in by using domain administrator to computer that connects to the domain.

Go to Start -> Run -> Write cmd and press on Enter button.

Write «certutil.exe» command and press on Enter button.

Option 2

Sign in by using domain administrator to computer that connects to the domain.

Install Windows Support Tools.

Go to Start -> Run -> Write adsiedit.msc and press on Enter button.

CN=Certification Authorities,CN=Public Key

Under Certification Authorities, you’ll find your Enterprise Root Certificate Authority server.

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Find domain name from command line

We can find the domain name of a computer by running the following commnad from command line.

We can find the logged in user’s domain by using the environment variable ‘USERDOMAIN’. Command for this is given below.

Note that the value in %USERDOMAIN% may not be the same as the one returned by systeminfo command. %USERDOMAIN% gives the domain name the user account belongs to, it could be different from the domain of the computer. Also, this may give you the NetBios name of the computer, not DNS/FQDN name.

Alternatively, we can use WMIC to retrieve domain name.

Whatt is the command to view domain name in windows 7

All the above commands work on Windows 7. WMIC one may/may not work depending on whether the edition of win7 you have supports it or not.

The systeminfo command given in this post works on Windows 7 also. I think copying the command from this page had some problem and it did not work. Have corrected it. It should work now.

systeminfo | findstr Domain

I see no reason for the /b /c:” “

/C may not be required. /b is required to avoid matches with the values for other fields of systeminfo command.

Thanks! Useful!! Keep it up your good work.

Thanks for this! I needed to pull the domain for a powershell script for use on servers that didn’t have the ActiveDirectory module (and I wasn’t going to install it).

This enabled me to grab the domain, then trim out the header and return in Powershell for my variable.

This command returns domain or workgroup: net config workstation
* If domain: “Workstation Domain DNS Name”
* If group: “Workstation domain”

Get-WmiObject is not recognized as a command. Any help guys?

Get-WmiObject is a PowerShell cmdlet. You need to use the command in the PowerShell Terminal. To do it in the CMD Terminal, you need to run the WMIC commands (as explained above)
For example, “wmic computersystem get domain” (without quotes)

Can someone please guide me on how to obtain the domain name of the servers remotely. I need to get the domain name for hunderds of servers.
Is there a way to create a CSV file with the server names and create a batch file and run it to obtain this information?
Any help would be highly appreciated.
Thanks.

wmic /node:”COMPUTERNAME” computersystem get domain

I am getting domain as workgroup. what’s wrong here?

It means that your computer is not part of a domain but a workgroup. All the home computers are part of a workgroup.

what is domain for windows 8? i need it for change to administrator, it is will work?

thanks for share me the value knowledge

Excellent info and list of commands.. Thank you.

Just type –> set user

gives you the domain info without searching

set user only shows the domain of which the user is a member.
NOT the computer’s domain. (This could be different).

If so, the ‘wmic computersystem get domain’ is a working command.

systeminfo | findstr /B /C:”Domain” depends on the OS language.
if you have a german OS, it’s
systeminfo | findstr /B /C:”Domäne” .
But otherwise fine info.

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ARCHIVED: In Windows, how do I find my computer’s hostname?

To find your computer’s hostname:

In Windows 7, Vista, or XP

1. In Windows 7, from the Start menu, right-click Computer . In Vista and XP, on the desktop, right-click Computer (Vista) or My Computer (XP).
2. Select Properties . In Windows XP, then click the Computer Name tab.

Note: If this doesn’t match what you see, refer to Get around in Windows.

Windows XP default desktop view and Start menu are different from the Windows Classic View (e.g., in Windows 2000 ). Therefore, navigating to certain items can be different. In the interest of broad applicability, most Knowledge Base instructions assume you are using Classic View. For details about switching views, see

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In the window that appears, your computer name will be displayed under «Computer name, domain, and workgroup settings» (Windows 7 and Vista) or next to «Full computer name:» (XP).

Using the command prompt

1. From the Start menu, select All Programs or Programs , then Accessories , and then Command Prompt .
2. In the window that opens, at the prompt, enter hostname . The result on the next line of the command prompt window will display the hostname of the machine without the domain.

Note: Applications running on Unix systems are case sensitive, and recognize bl-uits-xxxxx and BL-UITS-XXXXX as two different computers. If you are providing your computer’s hostname to be used on one of these systems, be careful to indicate the correct character case.

How do I find the authoritative name-server for a domain name?

How can I find the origins of conflicting DNS records?

12 Answers 12

You’ll want the SOA (Start of Authority) record for a given domain name, and this is how you accomplish it using the universally available nslookup command line tool:

The origin (or primary name server on Windows) line tells you that ns51.domaincontrol is the main name server for stackoverflow.com.

At the end of output all authoritative servers, including backup servers for the given domain, are listed.

You used the singular in your question but there are typically several authoritative name servers, the RFC 1034 recommends at least two.

Unless you mean «primary name server» and not «authoritative name server». The secondary name servers are authoritative.

To find out the name servers of a domain on Unix:

To find out the server listed as primary (the notion of «primary» is quite fuzzy these days and typically has no good answer):

To check discrepencies between name servers, my preference goes to the old check_soa tool, described in Liu & Albitz «DNS & BIND» book (O’Reilly editor). The source code is available in http://examples.oreilly.com/dns5/

Here, the two authoritative name servers have the same serial number. Good.

You could find out the nameservers for a domain with the «host» command:

I found that the best way it to add always the +trace option:

It works also with recursive CNAME hosted in different provider. +trace trace imply +norecurse so the result is just for the domain you specify.

The term you should be googling is «authoritative,» not «definitive».

On Linux or Mac you can use the commands whois , dig , host , nslookup or several others. nslookup might also work on Windows.

As for the extra credit: Yes, it is possible.

aryeh is definitely wrong, as his suggestion usually will only give you the IP address for the hostname. If you use dig , you have to look for NS records, like so:

Keep in mind that this may ask your local DNS server and thus may give wrong or out-of-date answers that it has in its cache.

We’ve built a dns lookup tool that gives you the domain’s authoritative nameservers and its common dns records in one request.

Our tool finds the authoritative nameservers by performing a realtime (uncached) dns lookup at the root nameservers and then following the nameserver referrals until we reach the authoritative nameservers. This is the same logic that dns resolvers use to obtain authoritative answers. A random authoritative nameserver is selected (and identified) on each query allowing you to find conflicting dns records by performing multiple requests.

You can also view the nameserver delegation path by clicking on «Authoritative Nameservers» at the bottom of the dns lookup results from the example above.

You can use the whois service. On a UNIX like operating system you would execute the following command. Alternatively you can do it on the web at http://www.internic.net/whois.html.

You would get the following response.

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Domain servers in listed order: NS51.DOMAINCONTROL.COM NS52.DOMAINCONTROL.COM

You can use nslookup or dig to find out more information about records for a given domain. This might help you resolve the conflicts you have described.

SOA records are present on all servers further up the hierarchy, over which the domain owner has NO control, and they all in effect point to the one authoritative name server under control of the domain owner.

The SOA record on the authoritative server itself is, on the other hand, not strictly needed for resolving that domain, and can contain bogus info (or hidden primary, or otherwise restricted servers) and should not be relied on to determine the authoritative name server for a given domain.

You need to query the server that is authoritative for the top level domain to obtain reliable SOA information for a given child domain.

(The information about which server is authoritative for which TLD can be queried from the root name servers).

When you have reliable information about the SOA from the TLD authoritative server, you can then query the primary name server itself authoritative (the one thats in the SOA record on the gTLD nameserver!) for any other NS records, and then proceed with checking all those name servers you’ve got from querying the NS records, to see if there is any inconsistency for any other particular record, on any of those servers.

This all works much better/reliable with linux and dig than with nslookup/windows.