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Authors:
James F. Kurose, Keith W. Ross
Chapter:
Application Layer
Exercise:
Problems
Question:36 | ISBN:9780132856201 | Edition: 6

Question

Many BitTorrent clients use DHTs to create a distributed tracker. For these DHTs, what is the “key” and what is the “value”?

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Answer

The many BitTorrent clients use  DHTs (Distributed Hash Tables)  to create a distributed trakcer. The key and value are used in stored peers.

They are as follows:

key :Torrent identifier

Value: IP (Internet Protocol) address of a peer that is participating in the current torrent.

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