libp2p/go-libp2p-kad-dht

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A Kademlia DHT implementation on go-libp2p

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Indexed issues: 48
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Merged PRs (30d): 1

Dominant language: Go
License: MIT
Last GitHub push: Aug 21, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
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48 open issues indexed

new version of the stream handler that uses a compact representation per provide Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

libp2p/go-libp2p-kad-dht#871 · 5 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 23, 2023
DHT should not depend on boxo Open

status/blocked

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

libp2p/go-libp2p-kad-dht#846 · 7 comments · Opened Jun 12, 2023
Make DHT protocol Resource Manager aware. Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

libp2p/go-libp2p-kad-dht#806 · Opened Jan 24, 2023
MessageSender limits concurrent RPCs to remote peer by only keeping one single stream per peer Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

libp2p/go-libp2p-kad-dht#805 · 2 comments · 5 reactions · Opened Jan 18, 2023
DHT doesn't properly starts using Accelerated DHT Client when system starts and internet connection isn't stable yet Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

libp2p/go-libp2p-kad-dht#770 · 3 comments · Opened May 12, 2022
Making DHT message proto and handling modular Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

libp2p/go-libp2p-kad-dht#748 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Oct 8, 2021
Allow the ProviderManager to have more paralleism Open

effort/days exp/intermediate kind/enhancement P2

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

libp2p/go-libp2p-kad-dht#729 · 4 comments · Opened Jul 21, 2021
Implement a new fn similar to Provide that doesn't only support peerIDs, but also []byte values Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

libp2p/go-libp2p-kad-dht#718 · Opened May 20, 2021
Dual DHT shortcutting SearchValue for previously published records Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

libp2p/go-libp2p-kad-dht#692 · 2 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Aug 31, 2020
Drop inbound provider records when overloaded Open

kind/enhancement research

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

libp2p/go-libp2p-kad-dht#675 · Opened Jun 19, 2020
Don't add inbound peers to the Routing Table till we've finished bootstrapping Open

libp2p/go-libp2p-kad-dht#652 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened May 21, 2020
Inbound query filter Open

libp2p/go-libp2p-kad-dht#617 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Apr 27, 2020
Gradual Network Upgrades Open

Epic

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

libp2p/go-libp2p-kad-dht#616 · 3 comments · Opened Apr 27, 2020
LastQueriedAt older than LastUsefulAt Open

kind/bug

libp2p/go-libp2p-kad-dht#613 · 4 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Apr 27, 2020
Tune refresh interval Open

kind/enhancement

libp2p/go-libp2p-kad-dht#612 · 1 assignee · Opened Apr 26, 2020
Rate limit fix-low-peers Open

kind/enhancement

libp2p/go-libp2p-kad-dht#608 · 1 assignee · Opened Apr 25, 2020
Libp2p DHT Open

Epic kind/enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

libp2p/go-libp2p-kad-dht#597 · 2 comments · 5 reactions · Opened Apr 21, 2020
Prefer peers with better routing tables Open

kind/enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

libp2p/go-libp2p-kad-dht#589 · 5 comments · Opened Apr 15, 2020
Remove special cases for Peer and Provider records Open

Epic

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

libp2p/go-libp2p-kad-dht#584 · 9 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Apr 13, 2020
Load-balanced bootstrapping Open

Epic

libp2p/go-libp2p-kad-dht#574 · 16 comments · 3 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened Apr 8, 2020
Balanced ID choice on join Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

libp2p/go-libp2p-kad-dht#573 · 2 comments · Opened Apr 8, 2020
XOR-trie based routing table Open

Epic

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

libp2p/go-libp2p-kad-dht#572 · 7 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Apr 8, 2020
Signed Provider records for the DHT Open

Epic

libp2p/go-libp2p-kad-dht#559 · 11 comments · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened Apr 6, 2020
Signed Peer records for the DHT Open

libp2p/go-libp2p-kad-dht#558 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Apr 6, 2020
Fix Routing Table Refresh after we have a SearchByKadId RPC Open

Epic

libp2p/go-libp2p-kad-dht#556 · 4 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Apr 6, 2020
Test that querying with an empty routing table returns the correct error Open

kind/test

libp2p/go-libp2p-kad-dht#555 · 1 assignee · Opened Apr 6, 2020
Stretch the parallelism over multiple iterations Open

kind/enhancement

libp2p/go-libp2p-kad-dht#546 · 7 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Apr 3, 2020
Make sure we're not rejecting good peers because we have bad latency metrics. Open

libp2p/go-libp2p-kad-dht#542 · 1 assignee · Opened Apr 3, 2020
Test that we're fully using our parallelism Open

kind/test

libp2p/go-libp2p-kad-dht#535 · 1 assignee · Opened Apr 3, 2020
Avoid one RTT at the end of PUT Open

kind/enhancement

libp2p/go-libp2p-kad-dht#532 · 1 assignee · Opened Apr 2, 2020
Cancel dials/requests when we have better peers Open

kind/enhancement

libp2p/go-libp2p-kad-dht#529 · 1 assignee · Opened Apr 2, 2020
At the end of a DHT query, only wait for 80% of the closest peers Open

kind/enhancement

libp2p/go-libp2p-kad-dht#528 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Apr 2, 2020
Merging DHTs Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

libp2p/go-libp2p-kad-dht#483 · Opened Mar 6, 2020
[DHT] Prefer low latency peers to reduce query times Open

Epic kind/enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 10/100

libp2p/go-libp2p-kad-dht#807 · 4 comments · Opened Feb 20, 2020
Stay in DHTClient mode on resource-constrained nodes Open

kind/enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

libp2p/go-libp2p-kad-dht#439 · Opened Jan 22, 2020
Active bootstrapping Open

Epic

libp2p/go-libp2p-kad-dht#387 · 6 comments · 4 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 30, 2019
Cache Provider Records in the network Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

libp2p/go-libp2p-kad-dht#386 · 3 comments · Opened Aug 29, 2019
Critical path towards DHT efficiency and performance Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

libp2p/go-libp2p-kad-dht#345 · 15 comments · 21 reactions · Opened May 30, 2019
Rename `IpfsDHT` to `Kad` or something else Open

effort/days exp/expert P4

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

libp2p/go-libp2p-kad-dht#337 · 4 comments · 2 reactions · Opened May 20, 2019
Execute arbitrary function when DHT message is received Open

exp/expert kind/enhancement P4

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

libp2p/go-libp2p-kad-dht#331 · 5 comments · Opened May 3, 2019
Expire and republish records received via PUT_VALUE and ADD_PROVIDER Open

libp2p/go-libp2p-kad-dht#323 · 25 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Apr 18, 2019
What metrics to export? Open

kind/enhancement metrics need/community-input topic/filecoin

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

libp2p/go-libp2p-kad-dht#304 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · Opened Mar 21, 2019
advertising supported protocols via the DHT Open

need/community-input

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

libp2p/go-libp2p-kad-dht#302 · 7 comments · Opened Mar 14, 2019
Towards better visibility, debuggability and diagnostics Open

libp2p/go-libp2p-kad-dht#256 · 13 comments · 3 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened Feb 11, 2019
Persist routing table Open

P3 status/in-progress

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 32/100

libp2p/go-libp2p-kad-dht#254 · 21 comments · 25 reactions · Opened Feb 8, 2019
Expose traversal metrics Open

metrics

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

libp2p/go-libp2p-kad-dht#252 · 2 comments · Opened Feb 7, 2019
Automatically add the author of an IPNS record to the set of peers to query Open

effort/hours exp/intermediate help wanted kind/enhancement topic/perf

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

libp2p/go-libp2p-kad-dht#145 · 5 comments · Opened May 5, 2018
Examples Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

libp2p/go-libp2p-kad-dht#3 · 13 comments · 9 reactions · Opened Aug 22, 2016

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