It depends on the client, maybe they are caching the relay list.
There are many sources for relays.. Hard coded (app) relays, nip-05 relays, extension relays, relays embedded in notes, nprofiles, and the "actual" kind 10002 list as defined in NIP-65
https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/65.md
TLDR; it's messy, implementations differ, and making it performant is a challenge
Nostr Dev Team
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2024-07-13 13:07:43
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