On Monday 01 September 2008 21:14, Matthew Toseland wrote:
> When a new node connects to the network, it has to find nodes to connect
> to. "Seednodes" help this process: a node connects to 3 seednodes, sends
> announcements through them, and then hopefully the announcements will return
> nodes for it to connect to.
>
> At the moment we have 23 seednodes, but only 8 to 12 of them actually
connect
> at any one time. If you want to help the network, have at least 256kbps
> upstream bandwidth, and a static IP (or at least a dyndns address), please
> check in your config that "Be a seednode" is enabled, and send me your node
> reference. This should significantly improve performance for new nodes, and
> therefore hopefully get us more users, more content, etc etc.
>
> Thanks!
>
One other point: To be a seednode, you need to have your opennet port
successfully forwarded. Hopefully this will happen automatically with UP&P,
but it's best to do it manually if you can. Thanks.
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