Why can BitTorrent Mainline connect to any DHT nodes?
The problem most likely occurs because something is blocking BitTorrent Mainline from contacting other nodes. Try the following suggestions to see if they help: • Make sure that when you forwarded your port, you forwarded it for UDP connections in addition to TCP connections, since DHT makes heavy use of UDP. • If you are using PeerGuardian (or an equivalent IP blocker), you might need to stop using it, or make an exception in the software for BitTorrent Mainline’s DHT bootstrap nodes at router.utorrent.com and router.bittorrent.com, as BitTorrent Mainline makes use of DHT nodes at those addresses to get the IP addresses of other nodes in the DHT network. • Try adding a .torrent file from Depthstrike.com’s mirrors for open-source/freeware projects to BitTorrent Mainline’s torrent jobs list. These .torrent files contain other DHT nodes that BitTorrent Mainline can use to bootstrap onto the DHT network. • Try removing dht.dat and dht.dat.old from the settings directory, as these files mi
