How to enable DHT in Ktorrent in ubuntu 16.04

Question

I recently downloaded KTorrent but now I want to download something that requires Distributed Hash Tables to be enabled...

How do I enable DHT in KTorrent?

Solution 1

As of 2019-02-23, KTorrent allows to enable DHT, as Rinzwind pointed out, under

Settings → Preferences → BitTorrent

The setting for this is called Use DHT to get additional peers.

Solution 2

It is actually Settings → Configure Ktorrent → Bittorrent, at least on my version of Ktorrent (version 5.1.1).

Comments

[Rinzwind]

DHT is not an option (at least not anymore; you used to be able to enable it in "settings" "preferences" "bittorrent"). It is either supported or not, and except for a few ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/… ) all torrent programs support it. What is important though: DHT uses UDP and not TCP so your firewall and your router might block these.