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nornagon | 9 years ago

The Kademlia/Bittorrent DHT protocol still requires an initial node to bootstrap access the DHT. In Bittorrent, a set of known-good nodes is encoded into the .torrent file (or clients can use previously-discovered nodes they might happen to know about, or router.bittorrent.com as a last-resort fallback).

How does Scout bootstrap?

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silotis|9 years ago

Scout uses BitTorrent Inc's bootstrap servers at router.bittorrent.com and router.utorrent.com.

xj9|9 years ago

In other words, nothing different than what we have now.