Matthew Toseland wrote:
> Snapshot from my node's stats page, with low uptime (a few minutes). Very
> obvious clustering around 0.2/0.3 and it tails off. IIRC later on it becomes
> more dispersed. Maybe this tells us something? Theory: We have a small number
> of long links to the wider network, and we swap with nodes beyond those links
> infrequently, because there is a low probability of a swap going through that
> link, but when it does, it gives us access to a wider range of nodes. Hence,
> the location distribution starts off very specialised, but over time becomes
> less so.
>
> Another explanation for it becoming less specialised over time would be
> newbie
> nodes with random locations.
>
> Any way to tell between the two theories?
>
> http://amphibian.dyndns.org/freenet/08-06-07-low-uptime-location-distributions.png
>
My two major nodes are seeing that clustering as well (and have seen
clustering at that location, 0.2/0.3, for a number of weeks) and are
part of the cluster (like your node is); one of my major nodes is peered
with yours and the two used to be peered together a month or two ago,
but I separated them to see if they'd drift apart; they haven't, but
that may be because their neighborhoods are probably rather established
now; a third node I brought up for testing from no peers and got about
10 peers via bot2bot has a wildly fluctuating location (probably because
the number of connected peers fluctuates from 0 to 6 or so) is currently
0.48 (in fact it just moved moments ago from 0.52 or so).
