Allied Posted January 23, 2006 Report Share Posted January 23, 2006 I herd on another forum that the mainline DHT network that uTorrent uses is dependant on BitTorrent.com. Is that true?That would mean that uTorrent, BitComet and BitSpirit are all dependant on Bram Cohen.... Scary thought.Sorry if this has been answered somewhere else. But what could I search for? DHT? I'd get a million results. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted January 23, 2006 Report Share Posted January 23, 2006 I herd on another forum that the mainline DHT network that uTorrent uses is dependant on BitTorrent.com. Is that true?Not quite.The code was developed based on the mainline DHT implementation, however the clients are NOT dependant on anything from bittorrent.com to join the DHT network. Bootstrap information to join DHT swarms can be included in .torrent files. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted January 23, 2006 Report Share Posted January 23, 2006 And some clients allow you to specify a custom bootstrap in the client itself. µTorrent doesn't at the moment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
r00ted Posted January 23, 2006 Report Share Posted January 23, 2006 If you are paranoid of Bram's DHT, just disable DHT in your client. Or, simply add 127.0.0.1 router.bittorrent.com to your HOSTS file, or router.bittorrent.com:38.114.167.69-38.114.167.69 to your firewall filters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted January 23, 2006 Report Share Posted January 23, 2006 Why would you be? It's a distributed network... kind of stupid to be paranoid of that. He can't take control of it really. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
splintax Posted January 24, 2006 Report Share Posted January 24, 2006 Wasn't someone spreading FUD about router.bittorrent.com a few days ago?http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=2659 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allied Posted January 24, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 24, 2006 So if uTorrent doesn't use router.bittorrent.com as the entry point into the DHT network, what does it use? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted January 24, 2006 Report Share Posted January 24, 2006 It does, but it doesn't have to. No client does. In fact, you only have to bootstrap once, you can enter through stored peers after that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
splintax Posted January 25, 2006 Report Share Posted January 25, 2006 Bootstrapping = finding out ONE peer that has DHT enabled, and getting information about more DHT peers from there.router.bittorrent.com is like a single BitTorrent peer, but it doesn't share any files. It just knows lots and lots of DHT peers and tells you about them when you ask. I'd imagine you'd be able to bootstrap off peers you just find in a regular swarm, anyway..? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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