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The original was posted on /r/monero by /u/neromonero on 2024-02-15 16:11:10.

Let's say, node Elephant wants to communicate with node Zebra. Assuming either of them know the network address of another, they can easily establish an encrypted peer-to-peer connection.

Let's say I'm starting a new node Tiger from scratch. It doesn't have prior knowledge of Elephant and Zebra.

So, we need a central node (or server) that, at the bare minimum, just keeps a list of all the nodes that are willing to participate in the network. Any new node like Tiger can talk to it, get the peer list, and end the connection.

Now, who controls this central node? Where is it? How can it be trusted?

To me, it sounds like a MAJOR weak point of the Monero network at large.