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Those three (router.bittorrent.com, dht.transmissionbt.com, dht.libtorrent.org) are convenience helpers baked into popular clients.

The DHT spec allows any UDP host to act as a router node, and they already do (uTorrent, qBittorrent, Aria2, PicoTorrent, etc.)
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Byzantine 5mo ago

does pubkey have a baked in router helper?

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Tekkadan, ゲロゲロ! 🐸 5mo ago

Uhh yeah this is my question too

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Mike Dilger ☑️ 5mo ago

To be clear, you can use ANY NODE and it will work. And there are gazillions of nodes. But you still need to get started somehow. I don't think anybody could design a better system. But yes it has baked in starting points. see DEFAULT_BOOTSTRAP_NODES

https://docs.rs/mainline/latest/src/mainline/rpc.rs.html

My point was only that this is censorable, that EVERYTHING is censorable in this sense, and that nostr is just as censorship-resistant in this sense. Not trying to say the DHT isn't good.... it is great.