What are the router.bittorrent.com connections for?

[Nathan]

Hey! Quick question about these:

Why is rain making connections to bittorrent.com? Any way to disable them?

[Cenk Altı]

These are well known nodes for bootstrapping DHT. You can override them in config or disable DHT completely.

rain/torrent/config.go

Lines 228 to 239 in 9bd29d7

 DHTEnabled:             true, 
 DHTHost:                "0.0.0.0", 
 DHTPort:                7246, 
 DHTAnnounceInterval:    30 * time.Minute, 
 DHTMinAnnounceInterval: time.Minute, 
 DHTBootstrapNodes: []string{ 
 	"router.bittorrent.com:6881", 
 	"dht.transmissionbt.com:6881", 
 	"router.utorrent.com:6881", 
 	"dht.libtorrent.org:25401", 
 	"dht.aelitis.com:6881", 
 },