How do nodes/wallets know what is the IP of the "nearby" node running monerod. How do they discover other nodes?
1 Answer
Monero wallet's daemon monerod initially and when all recent peers are offline tries to connect to one of the hard coded seed nodes, currently these are:
seeds.moneroseeds.se
seeds.moneroseeds.ae.org
seeds.moneroseeds.ch
seeds.moneroseeds.li
If it peers with enough regular network nodes, these nodes are not used any more unless all known peers are offline.