[freenet-dev] The perils of releasing unusable software, or why opennet sucks

[Colin Davis]

Matthew Toseland wrote:
> What makes you think that the number of seednodes is the problem? Announcement 
> ensures that we mostly connect to nodes that aren't in the seednodes list..
>   

Perhaps I'm off base-
It would seem that if there is a small collection of seednodes, then any 
initial announcements will go out through that small set.
It will travel along somewhat well established pathways of the nodes who 
are known to those seednodes, which are likely to also be overloaded.
We would then be linking to the same busy nodes that everyone else is 
trying to link to.

If you were to have a more random set of seednodes, your announcement 
would go out to a wider spread across the network,  and increase the 
chance that you will find machines to talk to which are not overloaded.