Having a rough one focus-wise today.
Listening to #DeathGrips and fixing up #BitTorrent integration with #DistributedPress
Yikes, seems like #WebTorrent is having trouble reaching the Mainline #DHT today or something. :/
Not ideal when trying to run tests! Might be a good reason to set up some more bootstrap nodes.
@cblgh yup! But not in the browser.
@mauve ah! do you know if browser nodes are in contact w/ dht nodes via bridging intermediary nodes like in hyperswarm-web?
@cblgh Sadly not for the DHT. There's been stuff brought up on and off for years but nobody actually took the step to get it working.
However there are "hybrid" clients that talk to both the WebRTC trackers and the DHT so they can act as bridges if they have data loaded.
@cblgh If you're interested in making one I'd be down to help out. In particular I think the DHT mutable PUT/GET API would be great to expose to web peers.
@mauve in general i'm super keen on the usefulness of hyperswarm-web (such a good model!!) but which works in most other programming languages outside of javascript, which is where my interest in webtorrent is coming from. looking for that pure hit of bittorrent dht + wss 😤
@mauve (tho i dont mean to imply webtorrent solves for my interest, it's just where i started, hoping it would ~bridge dht connectivity for web users)
@mauve does webtorrent have dht connectivity built-in? was looking at this topic a few weeks ago and didnt find a conclusive answer