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Re:Reddit’s blackout protest is set to continue indefinitely by rf15 on Thursday June 15, 2023 @04:43PM (#36346259)
That is untrue, you still need a server to facilitate discovery/passthrough. Peer-to-peer does not exist in the wider internet for most consumers.
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Re:Reddit’s blackout protest is set to continue indefinitely by Strom on Thursday June 15, 2023 @05:15PM (#36346595)
> you still need a server to facilitate discovery/passthrough

You could just bruteforce IPv4 until you hit a peer that will give you a set of known peers.

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Re:Reddit’s blackout protest is set to continue indefinitely by throwawaymobule on Friday June 16, 2023 @12:21AM (#36351189)
I don't think pex/dht operate on 'well known' ports. in fact, I think most clients are configured to randomize the port they use on each startup.

most every client comes with a list of 'bootstrap peers' for dht though.

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Re:Reddit’s blackout protest is set to continue indefinitely by Izkata on Thursday June 15, 2023 @06:36PM (#36347686)
Trackerless torrents are very old now, they use the DHT network to find peers. I believe it needs to be seeded when you first start a newly installed client, but that's completely transparent to the user.
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