Find best provider in Kademlia

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In my understanding of Kadmlia the location of a value to a key is determined by the nearest distance between a keys hash and a nodes id. Following that it must be possible to determine a node for providing a key, from a key. Is there a way to perform such a lookup?

[mxinden]

by the nearest distance between a keys hash and a nodes id.

by the nearest distance between a keys hash and a nodes id hash.

Following that it must be possible to determine a node for providing a key, from a key. Is there a way to perform such a lookup?

Do I understand correctly that you want the closest nodes only? In that case you can just use Kademlia::find_closest.

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More specifically I want the node in a network which's node id hash is as closest to the keys hash.

[mxinden]

👍 then Kademlia::find_closest should be the way to go. Let us know how it goes.