The DHT uses UDP(not TCP) as its transport, which Tor does not support. Some references:
DHT spec: http://bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0005.html Tor and other transports: https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq#TransportIPnotTCP On 2015-01-13 20:46, Cathal Garvey wrote: > Hey all, > I'm aware that (for pretty good reasons) bittorrent is "blocked" by most > exits on Tor. However, I'm unsure how this blockage is implemented, and > it just emerged as a relevant item in my thought-process: the Bittorrent > "Mainline" DHT is not necessarily useful to Bittorrent alone, but is > frequently used as an experimental platform for other P2P applications. > > Is the bittorrent DHT blocked by Tor exits, or just the Bittorrent > file-transfer protocol? If the latter, how is that block enacted when > most bittorrent apps support protocol obfuscation and dynamic ports? >
