Thread: [Guide] DHT - Distributed Hash Table

What is DHT?

DHT- Distributed Hash Table
Explanation: is an addition to certain BitTorrent clients that allows them to work without a tracker. What this means is that your client will be able to find peers even when the tracker is down, or doesn't even exist anymore. It allows downloads and uploads to continue as normal without a tracker.

This means, your ratio wont get updated if you enable DHT from your torrent client (ie: UTorrent 1.8.22, BitTorrent 6.0, Halite 0.3.1and many more) when downloading from IPT’s tracker. Nowadays, new torrent client comes with DHT enabled as default, so it is mostly advised to disable it.

How do I Disable it in UTorrent?

Open Utorrent.
Open the Settings tab.
Click the Bittorrent tab.
Uncheck the “enable DHT network” box.
Uncheck the “enable DHT for new torrents” box.

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What torrent client should I use and where do I get them?



µTorrent - a (very) tiny BitTorrent client

Credits - osoverride

Thanks for the tutorial.And i think all private trackers have an ption that doesn't let you use DHT on them.

thx for the info! most of the private trackers don't recommend using DHT...

Thanks for taking the time to write this tuto!

Please dont forget close DHT on private trackers.Thanks

Always wondered what DHT meant, but never got to look it up. Thanks

i didnt know that dht could cause problems.

some .torrent files disable dht.

thank you for this tutorial.

Hello everyone,

Does anybody know how to deactivate the DHT feature for a single torrent on Vuze?
If it cannot be done for the individual download, would you please tell me how to deactivate the function for the entire program?


Thanks

yeah it's weird, it's disabled in rutorrent from my seedbox, but when i download torrents from IPT and TL, sometimes it gets turned on again. This only happens with certain torrents and it's inconsistent, but i flip out because even on sites where DHT can catch you a ban if they catch you with it, they host torrents which turn it on. That's some crazy shit.