With OpenDHT support, the hip daemon pushes the hostname, RSA public HIT and public IP address to the OpenDHT. The resolver can then look up this information automatically without DNS or manual /etc/(hip)/hosts configuration.
Once you start hipd, it will send its hostname, HIT and IP address to OpenDHT. You can query this information with "hipconf dht get <hostname|HIT>".
To test, just run normally conntest-server and conntest-client-gai between hosts. You would see messages from hipd and conntest showing DNS->HIT->IP lookups. Everything should work without additional actions.
May need a change of contact OpenDHT server, currently running list is at http://www.opendht.org/servers.txt. For documentation, please also check http://kom.aau.dk/group/05gr680/