📚 dht - Awesome Go Library for Distributed Systems

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BitTorrent Kademlia DHT implementation.

🏷️ Distributed Systems
📂 Packages that help with building Distributed Systems.
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Detailed Description of dht

dht

Go Reference

Installation

Get the library package with go get github.com/anacrolix/dht/v2, or the provided cmds with go install github.com/anacrolix/dht/v2/cmd/...@latest.

Commands

Here I'll describe what some of the provided commands in ./cmd do.

dht

Supports various commands operating on the DHT.

% go run github.com/anacrolix/dht/v2/cmd/dht --help
valid arguments at this point:
  --help|-h
  --network <string>
  --secure
  --bootstrap-addr <[]string>
  --query-resend-delay <time.Duration>
  derive-put-target
  put
  put-mutable-infohash
  get
  ping
  get-peers
  query
  ping-nodes

Downstream projects

Projects that uses this repo in novel ways.

  • cove: Torrent browser with streaming, DHT search, video transcoding and casting.
  • btlink: btlink supports DNS records stored on the DHT.