On 1/3/07, Jano <alejandro at mosteo.com> wrote: > Matthew Toseland wrote: > > PROBEALL: requests (telnet to 2323 and type PROBEALL: then tail -f > > wrapper.log), and implementation of spying on other nodes' swaps, seem > > to confirm the prior observations that: > > - Locations of nodes are strongly clustered around 0.0. > > If I'm not mistaken, 0.0 is not a special location (besides being the warp > point from 1.0). So this clustering towards zero doesn't seem a natural > process. Even if there were reasons for the nodes getting naturally > concentrated around some location, then it could be anything and not > precisely 0.0?
You are not mistaken, even if there is a "natural" reason for clustering, there is no reason other than pure chance that it would be 0.0. This is definitely suspicious, and suggests a bug in how distances between locations is calculated, however the pieces of code responsible for that look fine. Curiouser and curiouser. Ian.
