DHT trackerless

aslam · Post by **aslam** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 3:37 am

mechanic wrote:libtorrent (cvs version) has just added dht support. it's c++ and bsd licensed.

Awesome...

Which DHT is it - Azureus or Manline? So does that mean that if I get the latest OS X SVN it will have DHT? I haven't seen it in the Changelog. I'm sorry if I'm asking an obvious question but I am new to this.

Thanks!

Stross · Post by **Stross** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 3:43 am

libtorrent is not libtransmission. A number of people have been pointing to code from other projects hoping the developers here will borrow and add it to Transmission.

jah · Post by **jah** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 11:14 am

mechanic wrote:libtorrent (cvs version) has just added dht support. it's c++ and bsd licensed.

Hmmm, the licenses are compatible. Is the fact that it is c++ a problem?

Hopefully this gets used!

bollywood · Post by **bollywood** » Tue Mar 27, 2007 11:13 pm

Is there any work being done on this feature?

the PEX that was recently added to the nightlies is fantastic! DHT would make transmission, one of the best clients around.

softwareelves · Post by **softwareelves** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 12:17 am

bollywood wrote:Is there any work being done on this feature?

the PEX that was recently added to the nightlies is fantastic! DHT would make transmission, one of the best clients around.

no one is working on it as of now, and it looks to be a pretty distant feature unless we "steal" it from another open source project.

Post by **livings124** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 1:21 am

softwareelves wrote:
bollywood wrote:Is there any work being done on this feature?

the PEX that was recently added to the nightlies is fantastic! DHT would make transmission, one of the best clients around.
no one is working on it as of now, and it looks to be a pretty distant feature unless we "steal" it from another open source project.

Why would you say we would steal it?

softwareelves · Post by **softwareelves** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 1:44 am

livings124 wrote:Why would you say we would steal it?

By "steal" i meant "to use", it'd have to be open source and have the right license. Code coping always feels like stealing to me. Kinda like coping answers to a test or something

chucker · Post by **chucker** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 3:19 am

softwareelves wrote:
livings124 wrote:Why would you say we would steal it?
By "steal" i meant "to use", it'd have to be open source and have the right license. Code coping always feels like stealing to me.

If the license fits, it isn't stealing. Rather, it's using the license for exactly what it was intended for.

aslam · Post by **aslam** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 12:36 am

I stopped using Transmission and went back to Azureus because T's lack of DHT meant that I was getting significantly slower speeds than Az (T's 20KB/s vs AZ's150KB/s.) However recently I read that the 0.70 version of Transmission included something called Peer Exchange (PEX). Is this the same thing as the DHT Trackerless option that we were requesting in this topic? If so maybe I can give Transmission another try. If not can someone explain the difference?

Thanks,
Aslam

mechanic · Post by **mechanic** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 1:24 am

DHT would really be useful. when the tracker.com went down azureus was still able to function without any problem. and now that tracker.example.com is blocking US ips its useful there as well. is DHT even on the todo list for transmission?

Post by **livings124** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 2:07 am

No one's currently working on it.

leena · Post by **leena** » Mon Nov 26, 2007 2:06 am

I'd really like to see this feature also. How about using something like http://opendht.org as a first step?

Taskman · Post by **Taskman** » Tue Dec 18, 2007 10:31 am

leena wrote:I'd really like to see this feature also. How about using something like http://opendht.org as a first step?

Planetlab. No thanks.

tiennou · Post by **tiennou** » Tue Dec 18, 2007 3:37 pm

Right now implemeting DHT requires taking care of the inner workings of it : a Kademlia implementation. Then, when you have this working, you'll have to hack it around to make it work with a special protocol (like the Bittorrent DHT protocol, based on bencoded RPC calls

, but there's also eDonkey, Azureus, ...), which makes the Bittorrent DHT unique, and not easily interoperable, since it will only understand things told in Bittorrent DHT. So openDHT can't be used (but I have no real proof) because it's not contacting any of the Bittorrent DHT networks available (Azureus or libtorrent), so while you can do requests on it for torrent hashes, you won't get peers information back, so it's useless

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btrack · Post by **btrack** » Mon Jan 07, 2008 4:26 pm

Had to install Azureus today. I didn't want to.

DHT would make Transmission the one and only bt app on my drive.

please add this feature.

thanks for an almost perfect product!!

Transmission

DHT trackerless

DHT in CVS!!

Is the PEX inlcuded in 0.70 the same as DHT?