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We do use Kademlia - but note this release actually runs 2 DHTs - one for LAN connections and one for WAN connections. You could easily imagine a small Mars out
by momack2 6y ago
We do use Kademlia - but note this release actually runs 2 DHTs - one for LAN connections and one for WAN connections. You could easily imagine a small Mars outpost as the LAN DHT where you can do fast retrieval for all content already available locally without hitting interplanetary lookup times.
https://docs-beta.ipfs.io/recent-releases/go-ipfs-0-5/features/#improved-dht https://docs-beta.ipfs.io/recent-releases/go-ipfs-0-5/featur...
- omginternets 6y agoWhat are your plans WRT Coral? I noticed there's a work-in-progress Go implementation. Is it going to supercede Kademlia eventually?
- whyrusleeping 6y agoYeah, thats roughly the idea. We can evolve the current DHT into something coral-like, or if something better comes along, we will use that.