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Distributed Hash Table Protocol (2008)

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Re: Distributed Hash Table Protocol (2008)

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Er, this 2008 BEP is widely known and referenced and was updated in 2013. Doesn't seem worth a post.

On other hand, it would be worthwhile if a reader had a paper for an alternative with better attributes. I wonder what the state-of-the-art is in these things.

Re: Distributed Hash Table Protocol (2008)

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Since we're talking about DHT's, does anybody know what happened to OpenDHT? That had a lot of buzz and activity at one point in time, then just kinda disappeared.

And on the same note... is there a generally available, sort of "free for all" DHT system out there now? If not, what stops one from existing?

Just curious, as it seems like DHTs have lots of uses, but it seems redundant for every app that needs one, to re-implement their own DHT network.

Re: Distributed Hash Table Protocol (2008)

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Since we're talking about DHT's, does anybody know what happened to OpenDHT? That had a lot of buzz and activity at one point in time, then just kinda disappeared. And on the same note... is there a generally available, sort of "free for all" DHT system out there now? If not, what stops one from existing? Just curious, as it seems like DHTs have lots of uses, but it seems redundant for every app that needs one, to re…

I'm working on both! http://github.com/urdht

Re: Distributed Hash Table Protocol (2008)

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Since we're talking about DHT's, does anybody know what happened to OpenDHT? That had a lot of buzz and activity at one point in time, then just kinda disappeared. And on the same note... is there a generally available, sort of "free for all" DHT system out there now? If not, what stops one from existing? Just curious, as it seems like DHTs have lots of uses, but it seems redundant for every app that needs one, to re…

You could write one pretty simply on top of something like Ringpop:

https://github.com/uber/ringpop

There's also a Go implementation of Ringpop coming right around the corner too.

Re: Distributed Hash Table Protocol (2008)

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Since we're talking about DHT's, does anybody know what happened to OpenDHT? That had a lot of buzz and activity at one point in time, then just kinda disappeared. And on the same note... is there a generally available, sort of "free for all" DHT system out there now? If not, what stops one from existing? Just curious, as it seems like DHTs have lots of uses, but it seems redundant for every app that needs one, to re…

There's BEP 44 which enables use of the bittorrent DHT for non-bittorrent applications.

http://bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0044.html

Re: Distributed Hash Table Protocol (2008)

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Since we're talking about DHT's, does anybody know what happened to OpenDHT? That had a lot of buzz and activity at one point in time, then just kinda disappeared. And on the same note... is there a generally available, sort of "free for all" DHT system out there now? If not, what stops one from existing? Just curious, as it seems like DHTs have lots of uses, but it seems redundant for every app that needs one, to re…

You mean an open library? Or do you actually mean a unified DHT network, with many different applications all using the same network?
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