ay!!! thanks aschmahmann looks like i was able to finally get it working by instantiating my dht like so
```
	idht, err := dht.New(ctx, h,
		dhtOpts.Validator(record.NamespacedValidator{
			"pk":   record.PublicKeyValidator{},
			"ipns": ipns.Validator{KeyBook: pstore},
		}),
	)
```