On Saturday 09 December 2006 11:44, Anders Johansson wrote:
> On Saturday 09 December 2006 21:32, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> > The Saturday 2006-12-09 at 02:12 -0900, John Andersen wrote:
> > > DHT is disabled.
> >
> > What is DHT?
> >
> > The wikipedia has four entries:
>
> Five (at least)
>
> >     * , a type of distributed system that provides hash table-like
> >       functionality
>
> That's the one

wikipedia addicts....  (sigh)

In the present usage instance, DHT is used by torrent clients
to find additional peers in addition to or in the absence of any peers
supplied by trackers.  

It allows access to peers even when trackers are blocked or down
as long as you can find one peer somewhere that runs DHT.

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