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.)
bitcoinerrorlog / Big Bad John
npub13n…60svh
2025-07-12 20:14:30 UTC
in reply to nevent1q…fhd4
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