In simple terms, how does a BitTorrent client initially discover peers using DHT?

Become or hire the top 3% of the developers on Toptal https://topt.al/25cXVn

--

Music by Eric Matyas
https://www.soundimage.org
Track title: Puzzle Meditation

--

Chapters
00:00 Question
00:56 Accepted answer (Score 58)
06:15 Answer 2 (Score 27)
07:29 Answer 3 (Score 2)
08:24 Answer 4 (Score 1)
10:03 Thank you

--

Full question
https://superuser.com/questions/592238/i...

Question links:
[this SuperUser answer]: https://superuser.com/a/274995/59596
[this Wikipedia article]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainline_DH...

Accepted answer links:
[Bittorrent DHT]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainline_DH...
[Kademlia]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kademlia
[Distributed hash table]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed...
[bootstrapping]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kademlia#Jo...

Answer 2 links:
http://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep%5F000...

Answer 3 links:
[torrent-freak wrote a post on this subject]: https://torrentfreak.com/bittorrents-fut.../

Answer 4 links:
[DHT]: http://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0005....
[sharing metadata]: http://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0009....

--

Content licensed under CC BY-SA
https://meta.stackexchange.com/help/lice...

--

Tags
#bittorrent

#avk47