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>no servers or IP knowledge involved when you say this you're not talking about bittorrent-dht's bootstrap nodes right[1]? [1]https://github.com/feross/bittor
by __john 11y ago
>no servers or IP knowledge involved
when you say this you're not talking about bittorrent-dht's bootstrap nodes right[1]?
[1]https://github.com/feross/bittorrent-dht/blob/497d1e08f5bc06b903b32750353175dbb2dc646a/client.js#L23-L27 https://github.com/feross/bittorrent-dht/blob/497d1e08f5bc06...
- danoctavian 11y agoThat's a good point. You still need those. I don't believe there's any way around it whenever you're using a decentralized network like the DHT, you need to somehow "get into" the network, so you need to know someone from it.
- sliken 11y agoSure, but there's numerous ways to get DHT peers. Sure there's those 3 bootstrap peers, but there's also trackers that give you peers, peer exchanges, and torrents that point to trackers. Running pretty much any torrent client that has ever been on a torrent before is likely to find you additional DHT peers even if all the bootstrap hosts are down.