On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 07:49:12AM -0700, Robert Ransom wrote: > On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 07:02:10 -0400 > [email protected] 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.
Another place to read would be https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq#KeyManagement and then https://svn.torproject.org/svn/projects/design-paper/blocking.html The short answer is "it gets it from a few static IP addresses that never change, except if you're using bridges in which case it uses your bridges". --Roger *********************************************************************** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to [email protected] with unsubscribe or-talk in the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/
