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DHT Walkthrough Notes

I've put together these notes as I read about DHT's in depth and then learned how the libtorrent implementation based on the Kademlia paper actually works.

What problem does this solve?

400,000,000,000 (400 billion stars), that's a 4 followed by 11 zeros. The number of atoms in the universe is estimated to be around 10^82. A DHT with keys of 160 bits, can have 2^160 possible numbers, which is around 10^48

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0 = Success
1 = Operation not permitted
2 = No such file or directory
3 = No such process
4 = Interrupted system call
5 = Input/output error
6 = No such device or address
7 = Argument list too long
8 = Exec format error