We need more seednodes. I will explain the broader situation below. If you can run a seednode - which means you need a forwarded port, a reasonably static IP address (or dyndns name), and a reasonable amount of bandwidth (especially upstream), and a reasonably stable node, please send me your opennet noderef (from the strangers page in advanced mode), and enable "Be a seednode" in the advanced config. Thanks.
Details: One of the problems Freenet has at the moment is that bootstrapping a new node can take an awfully long time - 20 minutes or more sometimes. It is not clear why; we seem to either get rejected by seednodes (most of the time), or they return nothing, maybe a few "not wanted" notices, or they return lots of noderefs and we manage to announce. This might be due to bugs. 1343 fixed a bug that apparently badly affected some seednodes. However it appears most seednodes have upgraded now. There doesn't seem to be a problem with losing connections - backoff yes but once a node is connected it seems to mostly stay connected. The most likely answer seems to be that we just don't have enough seednodes to cope with the load. It is also possible that this is due to an attack. It did come on relatively suddenly a few weeks ago (it was bad before but it got much worse), and it seems to have got significantly worse in the last week. It is not clear how we would identify an attack if that was the problem; there are no obvious signs so far. It is also possible it is a client-side bug. Testing of the master branch would be useful, it has some small changes.
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