[p0la]

anyone knows how peer discovery works without any central servers ?

[Vekz]

Great question, because generally, you need a centralized ICE/STUN/Turn Nat punch through server to connect peers

[evilaubergine]

it has core bootstrap nodeshttps://wiki.tox.chat/users/nodes , and a pretty bad DHT formation, so by distributing a few nasty clients with bad bootstrap URLs you could easily cause multiple splits in the network

[p0la]

Thx for the link.

Do you know if there is some sort of routing taking place ? Or all client are trying to consolidate a full Hash Table ?

[rad_gruchalski]

DNS?

[p0la]

I'd be surprised anyone would rely on DNS for security minded applications. If the goal is to have an easy to use and anonymous service, that can resist takedown attempts, DNS would fail you every step of the way.

[rad_gruchalski]

Hosting a solution dedicated DNS is not a rocket science these days. Publicly reachable service, that’s a totally different bag of problems.