`-b` means bootstrap mode. In this example, the go program is always the bootstrap node, so `-b` is always required.
Note that the node ID of `dht-interop` is always `Qm...6aJ9oRuEzWa` because it is being read in from `../util/private_key.bin` (a private key marshalled to X.509 generated by `util/private-key-gen`). This is to keep the peer id of the bootstrap server stable across invocations.
Note that the node ID of `dht-interop` is always `Qm...6aJ9oRuEzWa` because it is being read in from `../util/private_key.bin.bootstrapper.Wa` (a private key marshalled to X.509 generated by the program`util/private-key-gen`). This is to keep the peer id of the bootstrap server stable across invocations.
**Second terminal:** run the command printed out by dht-interop, replacing 127.0.0.1 with the IP of the server where dht-interop is listening. Example: