Hard-coded domain controller MVC

Question

I've been tasked with checking if the domain controller for a C# MVC web portal has been hard-coded, and if it has, update it. I have access to the source but I can't seem to locate where the domain controller is defined.

I'm wondering where the domain controller is usually set up in an MVC project (in a config file or within a controller class) or at least what the code would look like.

Any advice would be helpful.

Answer 1

It depends. How would a domain controller be used? Is the site using Windows authentication? Is it accessing Active Directory for some other purpose?

Regardless, the easiest way would likely be to get a list of all your domain controllers (if you have one domain, there likely isn't that many) and do a solution-wide search for each.