Intro to Distributed Hash Tables
Might as well learn an important concept from the original authors (the article does link to this paper): Chord: A Scalable Peer-to-peer Lookup Service for Internet
Applications [1]<p>[1] <a href="http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/papers/chord:sigcomm01/chord_sigcomm.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/papers/chord:sigcomm01/chord_sigco...</a>