Tox Bootstrap Daemon, or tox-bootstrapd for short, is a highly configurable Linux/Unix daemon that acts as a bootstrap node.

tox-bootstrapd resides in the toxcore repository and is built along with the toxcore as long as you make sure that you have building of tox-bootstrapd enabled and all of the dependencies required by tox-bootstrapd installed.

Once you have built tox-boostrapd, you can follow the instructions in its README file on how to set it up with SysVinit, systemd or Docker, along with sample SysVInit init script, systemd unit file and Docker Dockerfile.

You can also call

tox-boostrapd --help

to see all available command-line options. Most of the options are set in a config file though.

DHT_bootstrap is a very simple bootstrap program that runs in the foreground. In contrast to tox-boostrapd, which also can run in the foreground, it provides almost no configuration options but it is not restricted to running on just Linux/Unix, it can run on Windows and pretty much everything else toxcore runs on. Thus this is a preffered way of running a bootstrap node on a non Linux/Unix system.

DHT_bootstrap resides in the toxcore repository and is built along with the toxcore as long as you make sure that you have building of DHT_bootstrap enabled.

Once built, you can call

DHT_bootstrap -h

to see the available options.

DHT_bootstrap allows bootstrapping off just one other bootstrap node, address, port and key of which you can provide as the first 3 arguments to it.