Re: Using the DHT to find download sources

Quoting pwang708 <[email protected]> from ml.gnutella.dev-forum:
:Usage of the DHT:
:3) serving as distributed tracker for bittorrent enabled clients. A
:DHT can also be used to search torrent files.

I vote against this for a Gnutella-oriented DHT.  If you want to use
bittorrent, you know where to find it.

If you want to search for torrent files in Gnutella, fine.  A torrent file
is just another piece of information that can be shared.  But if you want to
add to the DHT design things that are bittorrent-specific, then my answer
is no!.  If you want to add that as private extensions for LimeWire, I
don't care as long as gtk-gnutella and any other servent joining the DHT can
operate correctly without these private extensions.

:Requirements:
:6) A richer API. The DHT can be used for several things which may have
:different requirements.

Let's keep the DHT simple and focused on Gnutella.  We're not trying
to design a super flexible generic DHT here.  We're designing something
that can store IP:port vectors in limited quantities for any given key.

Let's do this first. There are already many problems to solve to achieve
this efficiently.

Raphael