Not sure either. Perhaps trying to build up more kbuckets would help you answer questions better and to essentially perform the first lookup for a future requested hashname ahead of time.

Seems like something a seed would want to do so that it can fill all its buckets, not just the ones closest to its hashname. Do you think a seed is something where you select a seed randomly in order to start with the system, or where you specifically request a seed from the list based on closeness of their hashname?