# \#lookup

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## [How the lookup algorithm works and the role of buckets](https://discuss.ipfs.tech/t/how-the-lookup-algorithm-works-and-the-role-of-buckets/14290)

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**Author:** [@danieln](https://discuss.ipfs.tech/u/danieln)\
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**Last updated:** [May 30, 2022, 3:21pm UTC](https://discuss.ipfs.tech/t/how-the-lookup-algorithm-works-and-the-role-of-buckets/14290 "2022-05-30T15:21:40Z")

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I was reading the DHT deep dive blog post from the 0.5 IPFS release and had a couple of questions: In the blog post, Adin writes: We also search for ourselves in the network (i.e., bucket 255), just in case the networ…