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Re:Show HN: Nebula – A network agnostic DHT crawler by smoyer on Wednesday March 20, 2024 @08:44PM (#39773776)
The Kademlia DHT paper is a pretty straightforward description of a DHT - https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/~petar/papers/maymounkov-kademlia...
Re:Show HN: Nebula – A network agnostic DHT crawler by Hanschri on Friday March 22, 2024 @10:53AM (#39791318)
BitTorrent's BEP regarding DHT also explains how it works quite clearly. The implementation is based on Kademlia and can be found here: https://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0005.html