scratchie Posted April 19, 2010 Report Share Posted April 19, 2010 Greetings;I'm interested in using DHT and Peer Exchange to trade files with some friends where I don't need to upload the torrent file to a tracker. I've already done this successfully with one friend, but I'm wondering what would happen if I sent the torrent to a friend who had never used BitTorrent before. The question is: Does a user need to be connected to *some* tracker somewhere in order to get started? I.e., to get access to the DHT tables in the first place? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted April 19, 2010 Report Share Posted April 19, 2010 No. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scratchie Posted April 19, 2010 Author Report Share Posted April 19, 2010 Interesting... how do they find the first node, then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted April 19, 2010 Report Share Posted April 19, 2010 most of the time, clients have built-in nodes to connect to.They only need nodes from some public torrent if that method fails AND the torrent they're downloading doesn't contain any nodes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted April 19, 2010 Report Share Posted April 19, 2010 Clients bootstrap with router.utorrent.com to get some initial nodes, so this handles the case of a user never having used a single torrent ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scratchie Posted April 19, 2010 Author Report Share Posted April 19, 2010 Thanks for the info. What about other client apps? Do they generally have their own bootstrap methods? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted April 19, 2010 Report Share Posted April 19, 2010 Yes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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