hi :)
maybe it is complete bullshit what i think is a problem but that's why i ask you what you think about it imagine the following situation every day in #freenet-refs about 20 people join the channel they exchange their refs with each other after halve an hour of exchanging refs they build up a network of 20 nodes very interconnected some of them maybe have some other refs too but most of them are just connected within this (let's say cluster) actually as i observed by idling in this channel there are always the same ppl there so some new ppl drop in and get connected to this cluster 2 i have the feeling by beeing there and looking at my location information and theirs (after i connected to quite some of them) that they get very close to each other with their location information and i get the impression that within this cluster freenet works great but other nodes that are outside of this cluster are very high to reach then in addition there are some ubernodes there too grabbing all "new" nodes what finally happened to my node was that i got the location information 0.06xxxxxxxxxxx and almost all my peers had the same location information the farest away node had the location information 0.1xxxxxxxxxxxxx if i understood the theory of routing in freenet this cannot be good actually the best way should be many close connections and 2 or 3 very far connections i also "tried" it with some friend of mine we both connected to almost the same nodes connection info got very close of us i think especially with this ppl joining freenet staying there for a few days and leaving again in combination with the fact that most of these ppl end in one of this "clusters" it is really easy that the situation is generated where routing gets into trouble i hope i could inspire you to some ideas on the other hand i hope i am completely wrong :) thx for reading geekU
