Where does Tor get its relay lists from?

[Robert Ransom]

On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 07:02:10 -0400
hikki at 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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