I am working on implementing a P2P network using go-libp2p and hence need to solve the problem of peer discovery. I understand the idea of bootsrapped peers. However, based on what I hear on IPFS gitter channels, IPFS uses random walks on the underlying kademelia DHT to discover more peers.
- Please can someone explain what a
random walkon a DHT is and how it works ? - Maybe point me to the part of the code where this has been implemented.
I have already gone through the libp2p-kad-dht code and understand it in quiet well. Thanks a lot.