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But do such nodes exist in practice (in the current network). It would be interesting to research what clients connect to multiple bootstrap servers.

All implementations that I'm aware of use at least 4 bootstrap nodes. And you always bootstrap from all of them, there's no point just picking one. Here's my implementation, for example: https://github.com/anacrolix/dht/blob/master/dht.go#L106-L11....

Nice, thank you.