with all this effor that you put in this thread you would just open a PR and add your shit so we could move on

Funny how it’s always 0 or 100 when it comes to DHT, as in I’m yet to see someone say it’s just mid or ok.

Same goes for IPFS, which is funny because they claim to have solved all of the issues from DHT.

Anecdotal working tests doesn't make it performant or reliable, that's literally the meme

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A torrent without a tracker will often just stall and never start pulling chunks, this is why trackers are still used 20+ years after torrents introduced DHT... to the extent they are used is largely as a backup to trackers which themselves can go down or be overloaded... it's not reliable enough to be the primary source unless the torrent has a large swarm.

If a torrent has a webseed, DHT probably would be adequate, but that's effectively replacing the tracker by having static peers to serve the first chunks directly

justin_shocknet

What kind of troubles have you had with DHT? I just tested it with a completely new torrent and a magnet link (and yes, no trackers) and my friend downloaded it successfully. Single seeder on the planet (me) found by a single leacher on the planet (my friend).