diff --git a/htroot/DetailedSearch.html b/htroot/DetailedSearch.html
index 9645a4d61..fcee802ea 100644
--- a/htroot/DetailedSearch.html
+++ b/htroot/DetailedSearch.html
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
     <h2>Detailed&nbsp;Search</h2>
     <form class="dsearch" action="DetailedSearch.html" method="get" enctype="multipart/form-data">
       <fieldset>
-        <input type="text" name="search" value="#[search]#" size="50" maxlength="250" />
+        <input type="text" name="search" id="search" value="#[search]#" size="50" maxlength="250" />
         <input type="submit" name="Enter" value="Search" />
       </fieldset>
       <fieldset>
diff --git a/htroot/index.html b/htroot/index.html
index 2fffd0b97..6d2c95624 100644
--- a/htroot/index.html
+++ b/htroot/index.html
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
     <form class="search" action="yacysearch.html" method="get" name="searchform">
       <fieldset class="maininput">
         <input type="hidden" name="display" value="#[display]#" />
-        <input name="search" type="text" size="52" maxlength="80" value="#[former]#" />
+        <input name="search" id="search" type="text" size="52" maxlength="80" value="#[former]#" />
         <input type="submit" name="Enter" value="Search" />
         <input type="hidden" name="former" value="#[former]#" /><br />
         <input type="radio"  name="contentdom" value="text" #(contentdomCheckText)#::checked="checked"#(/contentdomCheckText)# />Text&nbsp;&nbsp;
diff --git a/source/de/anomic/server/serverCore.java b/source/de/anomic/server/serverCore.java
index d585a94d8..8ca8471e9 100644
--- a/source/de/anomic/server/serverCore.java
+++ b/source/de/anomic/server/serverCore.java
@@ -411,22 +411,31 @@ public final class serverCore extends serverAbstractThread implements serverThre
         return isNotLocal(url.getHost());
     }
     
-    public static boolean isNotLocal(String ip) {
-        // generate ip address if ip is given by host
-        assert (ip != null);
+    /**
+     * Checks if a given address (hostname or IP) is *not* a local address
+     *
+     * @param address Address to check
+     * @return boolean, true if address is public, false if address is private 
+     */
+    public static boolean isNotLocal(String address) {
+
+        assert (address != null);
         
         // check local ip addresses
-        if ((ip.equals("localhost")) ||
-            (ip.startsWith("127")) ||
-            (ip.startsWith("192.168")) ||
-            (ip.startsWith("10."))
+        if ((address.equals("localhost")) ||
+            (address.startsWith("127")) ||
+            (address.startsWith("192.168")) ||
+            (address.startsWith("10.")) ||
+            (address.startsWith("169.254")) ||
+            //172.16.0.0–172.31.255.255 (I think this is faster than a regex)
+            (address.startsWith("172.16")) || (address.startsWith("172.17")) || (address.startsWith("172.18")) || (address.startsWith("172.19")) || (address.startsWith("172.20")) || (address.startsWith("172.21")) || (address.startsWith("172.22")) || (address.startsWith("172.23")) || (address.startsWith("172.24")) || (address.startsWith("172.25")) || (address.startsWith("172.26")) || (address.startsWith("172.27")) || (address.startsWith("172.28")) || (address.startsWith("172.29")) || (address.startsWith("172.30")) || (address.startsWith("172.31"))
            ) return false;
         
-        // make a dns resolve
-        final InetAddress clientAddress = httpc.dnsResolve(ip);
+        // make a dns resolve if a hostname is given and check again
+        final InetAddress clientAddress = httpc.dnsResolve(address);
         if (clientAddress != null) {
             if ((clientAddress.isAnyLocalAddress()) || (clientAddress.isLoopbackAddress())) return false;
-            if (ip.charAt(0) > '9') ip = clientAddress.getHostAddress();
+            if (address.charAt(0) > '9') address = clientAddress.getHostAddress();
         }
         
         // finally check if there are other local IP adresses that are not in the standard IP range
@@ -434,7 +443,7 @@ public final class serverCore extends serverAbstractThread implements serverThre
             if (localAddresses[i].equals(clientAddress)) return false;
         }
         
-        // the address must be a gloabl IP address
+        // the address must be a global address
         return true;
     }
     
@@ -526,7 +535,8 @@ public final class serverCore extends serverAbstractThread implements serverThre
     }
     
     public void freemem() {
-        // do nothing; FIXME: can we something here to flush memory?
+        // FIXME: can we something here to flush memory? Idea: Reduce the size of some of our various caches.
+    	System.gc();
     }
     
     // class body
diff --git a/source/de/anomic/yacy/yacyPeerActions.java b/source/de/anomic/yacy/yacyPeerActions.java
index b6f42eae2..1038713b0 100644
--- a/source/de/anomic/yacy/yacyPeerActions.java
+++ b/source/de/anomic/yacy/yacyPeerActions.java
@@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ public class yacyPeerActions {
                     url = new URL(seedListFileURL);
                     header = httpc.whead(url, url.getHost(), this.bootstrapLoadTimeout, null, null, this.sb.remoteProxyConfig,reqHeader);
                     if ((header == null) || (header.lastModified() == null)) {
-                        yacyCore.log.logInfo("BOOTSTRAP: seed-list URL " + seedListFileURL + " not available");
+                        yacyCore.log.logWarning("BOOTSTRAP: seed-list URL " + seedListFileURL + " not available");
                     } else if ((header.age() > 86400000) && (ssc > 0)) {
                         yacyCore.log.logInfo("BOOTSTRAP: seed-list URL " + seedListFileURL + " too old (" + (header.age() / 86400000) + " days)");
                     } else {
@@ -214,10 +214,12 @@ public class yacyPeerActions {
                         yacyCore.log.logInfo("BOOTSTRAP: " + lc + " seeds from seed-list URL " + seedListFileURL + ", AGE=" + (header.age() / 3600000) + "h");
                     }
                     
+                } catch (IOException e) {
+                    // this is when wget fails, commonly because of timeout
+                    yacyCore.log.logWarning("BOOTSTRAP: failed to load seeds from seed-list URL " + seedListFileURL + ": " + e.getMessage());
                 } catch (Exception e) {
                     // this is when wget fails; may be because of missing internet connection
-                    // we do nothing here and go silently over it
-                    yacyCore.log.logSevere("BOOTSTRAP: failed to load seeds from seed-list URL " + seedListFileURL);
+                    yacyCore.log.logSevere("BOOTSTRAP: failed to load seeds from seed-list URL " + seedListFileURL + ": " + e.getMessage());
                 }
             }
         }