[tor-talk] whats the very first connection initialized by tor at startup?

[fido dido]

ah, what i forgot to ask:
are these trusted_dir_authorities regular nodes with fingerprints and so on?



Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2011 21:01:17 +0200
From: Simon.Nicolussi at student.uibk.ac.at
To: tor-talk at lists.torproject.org
Subject: Re: [tor-talk] whats the very first connection initialized by tor at startup?

fido dido wrote:
> i mean there must be a server who got at least a bit of information
> about some nodes to start from. like in bittorrent where the tracker
> knows all the peers.
 
These would be the directory authorities that can be found in the
function add_default_trusted_dir_authorities in src/or/config.c.
 
There is an exception, of course: if you're using bridges, Tor is
required to go through a bridge beforehand.
 
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Simon Nicolussi, <Simon.Nicolussi at student.uibk.ac.at>
http://homepage.uibk.ac.at/~csag9583/

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