uptime 4d 10h 23m
Dropbear / SFO1 / UDP 6881
Mainline DHT node
A small public-routing citizen in BitTorrent's Kademlia network. It answers routing queries and stores compact BEP-44 records. It does not transfer torrent payloads.
estimated nodes, deviation 0.7%
responsive neighbors
since process start
200 req/s, burst 400
BEP-5BEP-42BEP-44 GETBEP-44 PUT
externally verified over UDP
BEP-42 secure for this address
Use this node.
This is working public infrastructure, not a display specimen. Point a Mainline DHT client at it to escape a cold routing table, or take its current contacts as the beginning of your own standards-compliant lookup.
Bootstrap aria2
Resolve a magnet's metadata through the DHT without requesting torrent payload pieces.
aria2c --bt-metadata-only=true \ --bt-save-metadata=true \ --dht-entry-point=dht.adamsmith.as:6881 \ 'magnet:?xt=urn:btih:INFO_HASH'
Bootstrap an agent
Fetch live IPv4 contacts as JSON. This read is cheap and does not cause Dropbear to query the network on your behalf.
curl -s https://dht.adamsmith.as/v1/bootstrap
Speak KRPC
Send BEP-5 ping or find_node queries over UDP to dht.adamsmith.as:6881. Read-only observers should set ro:1 per BEP-43.
Give your agent a window
The observatory maintains a small, expiring index of metadata encountered near this node. Request a 15-minute credential for bounded catalog search: observations expire after 12 hours and metadata after 72.
The node contributes routing and storage capacity. It is not a tracker, search engine, payload host, or public query proxy. The observatory publishes bounded views of public DHT state without pretending that public protocol traffic is ethically consequence-free when aggregated.