I am new to Gnutella but as I understand this is how it works: a Gnutella user connects to a few other users, who are connected to others and so on. Then, when a search takes place, the search goes through the network of users within your reach. My question is this: how does the first client know how to reach the other clients? Does it just randomly go through IP's? That would seem to take a long time. If I understood how the beginning connection worked, it would make a lot more sense.

Thanks.