Hi,

UseEntryGuardsAsDirGuards defaults to 1 in torrc.

So if you did not change this default you will use entry guards for tunneling directory connections.

--leeroy

On 8/21/2015 at 7:46 AM, tordev123@Safe-mail.net wrote:

-------- Original Message --------
From: Mike Perry <mikeperry@torproject.org>
Subject: [tor-dev] Proposal: Padding for netflow record resolution reduction
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2015 21:12:54 -0700

> Tor clients currently maintain one TLS connection to their Guard node to
> carry actual application traffic, and make up to 3 additional connections to
> other nodes to retrieve directory information.

That doesn't seem to be the case. Tor from TBB 5.0 startup (directory info was a couple of days old):

[GUARD] xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:443 received: 17967 sent: 12865
[dizum] 194.109.206.212:443 received: 564549 sent: 19078
[Faravahar] 154.35.175.225:443 received: 253909 sent: 55616
[maatuska] 171.25.193.9:80 received: 132954 sent: 28519
[tor26] 86.59.21.38:443 received: 370630 sent: 80132

There were no other connection attempts.