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

What happens with bittorrent and a DHT is that at the beginning bittorrent uses information embedded in the torrent file to go to either a tracker or one of a set of nodes from the DHT. Then once it finds one node, it can continue to find others and persist using the DHT without needing a centralized tracker to maintain it.

The original information bootstraps the later use of the DHT.