bootstrap-dht-yourself
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Let you bootstrap DHT connection without root nodes.
var BOOTSTRAP_NODES = [
'router.bittorrent.com:6881',
'router.utorrent.com:6881',
'dht.transmissionbt.com:6881'
]
Dirtily, it scans network randomly until it s able to find peers connected to the bittorrent DHT.
It scans for most commonly used port numbers according to https://dsn.tm.kit.edu/english/2936.php.
It may be longer than usual bootstrap nodes. But nothing unbearable according to my tests, few minutes at worst to find peers.
It surrounds DHT constructor to instantiate and consume a DHT table to fill it. It then returns the table when it s ready.
See cli.js for runnable example.
For DHT please refer to https://github.com/feross/bittorrent-dht
To demonstrate this is possible because nowadays bittorent is so popular.
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