DHT Explorer

The public BitTorrent DHT brought to light

Search nodes, trace lookups, and watch swarms propagate—no tracker required.

Key Highlights

Global Node Graph

Live view of every reachable node in the Mainline DHT—colour-coded by latency and protocol family (IPv4 / IPv6).

Lookup Replay

Step through a get_peers or find_node flow and see how queries traverse the Kademlia overlay.

Historical Trends

Explore churn rates, IPv6 adoption, and node availability across months or years—ideal for research.

What is the DHT?

The BitTorrent Distributed Hash Table (BEP 5) replaces traditional trackers by turning every peer into a tiny database. Each node stores hints about which IPs are sharing a given infohash, using the Kademlia algorithm to route lookups in O(log N) hops.

DHT Explorer visualises that process—showing how queries fan out, how buckets fill, and how the network self-heals when nodes disappear. Think of it as bgp.tools for torrents.