Tor relays actively advertise their IP:port to a known directory server that can then pass it on to other clients to build circuits (or people can access the same signed dbs of known relays from a bridge more anonymously) -- but the base directory server is fairly centralized.
https://svn-archive.torproject.org/svn/projects/design-paper/tor-design.pdf
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2023-01-27 04:43:56
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2023-01-27 04:43:56Event JSON
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