ficant
bit pulled from the CRC32C function. The lower 3 bits are random.</p>
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<h1>bootstrapping</h1>
<p>In order to set ones initial node ID, the external IP needs to be known. This
is not a trivial problem. With this extension, <em>all</em> DHT responses SHOULD include
a <em>top-level</em> field called <tt class="docutils literal">ip</tt>, containing a compact binary representation of
the requester's IP and port. That is big-endian IP followed by 2 bytes of bi