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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/bittorrent-dht/blob/497d1e08f5bc06...

That'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.

Sure, 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.

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