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I did some monitoring with Wireshark and detected a DNS request for dht.libtorrent.org during every qBittorrent client startup, despite having DHT disabled and anonymous mode enabled. The DNS request bypasses my VPN Socks5 proxy and connects to my regular DNS server. I also have the setting "use proxy only for torrents" unchecked (disabled).

Is this a bug or is the DNS request for dht.libtorrent.org necessary even if DHT is disabled?