Many connections to bitproject.io nodes?

[mzumsande]

@Antoine

That said, it seems that it’s not what happens in practice. The Bitprojects guy controls only 12 /16’s. That a node would pick any of those 12 for 4 of its slots if it has heard about all /16’s available is essentially null.

We don’t sample based on /16 - we sample based on address (and abort/get another sample if another outbound is from the same range). For example, if we have an addrman with 99 addresses from /16 range A and 1 address from /16 range B, we’ll pick an addr from A for our first peer with 99% probability.

So controlling a large number of addresses from a given /16 range does increase chances of being picked even if other nodes will only make one connection to that range.