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Nope, it isn't necessary. It just helps with peering, and the actual download will start faster.
by wjh_ 8y ago
Nope, it isn't necessary. It just helps with peering, and the actual download will start faster.
- brad0 8y agoAre you sure? I always thought that the peers have to be seeded by the trackers. How would you as a peer connect to any other peers without some kind of seed? What IPs do you connect to?
- martinml 8y agoClients usually have some public, harcoded nodes to bootstrap the search: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1181301 https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1181301