Question: As DHTs are overlay networks, they may not necessarily match the underlay physical network well in the sense that two neighboring peers might be physically

As DHTs are overlay networks, they may not necessarily match the underlay physical network well in the sense that two neighboring peers might be physically very far away; for example, one peer could be in Asia and its neighbor could be in North America. If we randomly and uniformly assign identifiers to newly joined peers, would this assignment scheme cause such a mismatch? Explain. And how would such a mismatch affect the DHT's performance?

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