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OP said they already have a working system. How well it works remains to be seen, until it's publicly available.

On what basis do you assume he/she has not succeeded without even having seen their work?

We tried too. Several people have made DHT sniffers, including our lab. You see lots of spam and get stuck. Filtering out the noise is weirdly hard.

So you're assuming they cannot possibly have succeeded simply because you failed?

these things need spam measures to work. That was not listed as a feature.