In Bit Comet, what does DHT stand for?

Answer 1

DHT stands for "Distributed (sloppy) Hash Table." In essence DHT is an alternative to the overhead and setup of a tracker, for publishers who want to seed content, but for whatever reason can't provide a true bittorrent tracker.

The bittorrent site says this:

'While it is called trackerless, in practice it makes every client a lightweight tracker. A clever protocol, based on a Kademlia distributed hash table or "DHT", allows clients to efficiently store and retrieve contact information for peers in a torrent.

When generating a torrent, you can choose to utilize the trackerless system or a traditional dedicated tracker. A dedicated tracker allows you to collect statistics about downloads and gives you a measure of control over the reliability of downloads. The trackerless system makes no guarantees to reliability but requires no resources of the publisher. The trackerless system is not consulted when downloading a traditionally tracked torrent.'

Answer 2

DHT may stand for:

Distributed hash table, a type of distributed system that provides hash table-like functionality
Dihydrotestosterone, a hormone commonly implicated in male baldness, produced from testosterone
Discrete Hartley transform, a Fourier-related transform of discrete, periodic data similar to the discrete Fourier transform