On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 07:02:10 -0400 hi...@safe-mail.net wrote: > Every now and then, when you start Tor, it searchers for relays/descriptors. > And I've heard that it does that every now and then while it tuns as well. > > Does it get this list from a few static IP addresses that never change, > or does it pick randomly from thousands of IP addresses/dir lists out there?
https://svn.torproject.org/svn/projects/design-paper/tor-design.html#subsec:dirservers In the current Tor network, the directory servers sign a ‘consensus’ listing and describing the currently known Tor relays, and most relays serve copies of the consensus to their clients. Robert Ransom
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