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The way our network currently bootstraps is to dial a set of peers that are hardcoded into the default config file. We also have mdns for finding peers that are on your LAN without the need for any hard coded addresses.



Thanks for the quick reply. I was actually thinking of an app running on a separate IP-based DHT, but your reply brought to my attention that IPFS actually already runs on a DHT.

Since IPFS runs on its own DHT, are there any plans for a client-side IPFS DHT library for apps to use to connect to peers on the IPFS network? Similar to https://github.com/feross/bittorrent-dht, but with native support for IPFS peers?

Something like this would make building a client-side real-time app based on IPFS a much more streamlined experience since developers won't have to depend on an external DHT.




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