Joining a Chord network (dht)

Question

I'm writing a chord netowrk on my LAN (the node key is an hash of the IP)
I read many articles about Chord network
but I didn't figure it out:
when a new client want to join the network, it must know another client in the network or some kind of server to manage a new client joining.

am I right?

Answer 1

Yes, when joining a DHT network, you must know at least one other node in the network you can announce yourself to.