How does DHT in torrents work?

Question

I\'m coding a p2p implementation that I would like to make decentralized however I\'m having some trouble grasping how DHT in protocols like bittorrent work. How does the client

Answer 1

The general theory can be found in wikipedia's article on Kademlia. The specific protocol specification used in bittorrent is here: http://wiki.theory.org/BitTorrentDraftDHTProtocol