DHT trackerless

gort · Post by **gort** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 2:25 pm

ktorrent now has DHT feature, but it's implemented in C++:
http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/extragear/n ... /kademlia/

the two c implementations i've found are GPL, though:
http://kadc.sourceforge.net/
http://db.cs.helsinki.fi/~tkt_dht/viewc ... t/#dirlist

Neo · Post by **Neo** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 2:31 pm

Trackers that previously worked like crap with Transmission work actually quite well lately.

jah · Post by **jah** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 2:36 pm

I experienced a prime example of the usefulness of this feature tonight. Two torrents i had left running in T had not connected to any peers for days.

Decided to try them in Azureus, and within minutes was connected to 50+ peers via the DHT.

Neo · Post by **Neo** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 2:39 pm

jah wrote:I experienced a prime example of the usefulness of this feature tonight. Two torrents i had left running in T had not connected to any peers for days.

Decided to try them in Azureus, and within minutes was connected to 50+ peers via the DHT.

Yup had similar results a few times before, only with BitComet for Windows instead.

Xilon · Post by **Xilon** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 3:13 pm

I would probably ask ludde (from uTorrent) and look at the mainline/azureus code for the basic algorithm. Since those apps are open source I fail to see why it would be hard to work out the implementation, I could see why it would be hard to implement in the code though. I'm not sure which language uTorrent uses, or which language Transmission uses (objective-C/C++?) but It's likely that Ludde would be a good person to talk to, although uTorrent only has the mainline DHT implemented.

x86surfer · Post by **x86surfer** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 7:04 pm

Since most people often connect to several trackers (with different rules) one way to go, as far as DHT goes, would be when having loaded a torrentfile to have a checkbox for "Use DHT" which you could chose to check before starting each torrent.

Zimbabwhat · Post by **Zimbabwhat** » Thu Jun 22, 2006 12:56 am

Since most people often connect to several trackers (with different rules) one way to go, as far as DHT goes, would be when having loaded a torrentfile to have a checkbox for "Use DHT" which you could chose to check before starting each torrent.

That's probably not necessary, since private trackers can include a "private flag" with their torrents, thus hiding them from DHT.

Post by **John Clay** » Thu Jun 22, 2006 1:57 am

Yes, but some private trackers don't have that option. Thusly, it should be an option if DHT is enabled or not.

Poin · Post by **Poin** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 8:15 am

Yhea! I really miss DHT support in Transmission too!

tre · Post by **tre** » Mon Jul 17, 2006 5:40 am

DHT++

Poin · Post by **Poin** » Mon Jul 17, 2006 5:46 am

The official DHT trackerless from BitTorrent.com, of course.

aslam · Post by **aslam** » Sat Jul 22, 2006 12:37 pm

Is there any word on the progress of this feature?? This and the ability to select individual files from a torrent to download are the only reasons I still use Azureus.

If there is a choice on which of the two protocals to use - Azureus vs. Manline - I would vote for the one with more clients. I suspect that this is Azureus but maybe there would be another reason to go for Manline that I don't know.

Nonetheless, is there any word on when we'll see this and/or the individual file select??

mechanic · Post by **mechanic** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 4:41 pm

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

Stross · Post by **Stross** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 11:01 pm

Any word on this? What feature is currently being worked on?

ATPTourFan · Post by **ATPTourFan** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 3:25 am

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

nice! Assimilate!

Transmission

DHT trackerless

ktorrent beta now has DHT

Trackerless BitTorrent (DHT), please!

Official technology, please.

Any word on the progress of DHT??