What Is a Distributed Hash Table?

A distributed hash table is a way for computers to share information about state. For IPFS, it serves a key purpose in allowing us to route users to content quickly and efficiently. So using a cademlia DHT algorithm, you can say, Hey, who's holding X and you can get there in a very short period of time without having to say do a full search, exhaustive search of the network. Right. That actually brings up a slightly interesting follow-up, which is, so if I've written my own IPFS application using lip pre to be, and I want to connect it to the IPFS network. Where do I kind of start? I mean, shouldn't