Directory information no longer up-to-date; access blocked?

[phobos at rootme.org]

On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 10:41:16PM -0400, crt2007z at gmail.com wrote 7.8K bytes in 156 lines about:
I believe the key is:
Aug 03 21:33:32.350 [Warning] You have used DirServer to specify                                                                                         
directory authorities in your configuration.  This is potentially                                                                                        
dangerous: it can make you look different from all other Tor users,                                                                                      
and hurt your anonymity.  Even if you've specified the same                                                                                              
authorities as Tor uses by default, the defaults could change in the                                                                                     
future.  Be sure you know what you're doing. 

Why are you specifying dirservers?  If you use the default torrc, or no
torrc at all (in /Library/Tor/) does Tor work?

-- 
Andrew