diff --git a/htroot/yacy/hello.java b/htroot/yacy/hello.java
index 3bb13d927..e1ee1f0cd 100644
--- a/htroot/yacy/hello.java
+++ b/htroot/yacy/hello.java
@@ -65,6 +65,9 @@ import de.anomic.yacy.yacyVersion;
 
 public final class hello {
 
+    // example:
+    // http://localhost:8080/yacy/hello.html?count=1&seed=p|{Hash=sCJ6Tq8T0N9x,IPType=∅,Port=8080,IP=,Uptime=8,rI=190,Version=0.10004882,PeerType=junior,UTC=+0200,RCount=0,sI=0,LastSeen=20080605103333,Name=intratest,CCount=5.0,SCount=40,news=,USpeed=0,CRTCnt=0,CRWCnt=0,BDate=20080605081349,rU=190,LCount=187,dct=1212668923654,ICount=2,sU=0,ISpeed=0,RSpeed=0.0,NCount=0,Flags=oooo}
+    
     public static serverObjects respond(httpHeader header, serverObjects post, serverSwitch<?> env) throws InterruptedException {
         plasmaSwitchboard sb = (plasmaSwitchboard) env;
         serverObjects prop = new serverObjects();
@@ -98,8 +101,7 @@ public final class hello {
             return prop;
         }
         final yacySeed remoteSeed = yacySeed.genRemoteSeed(seed, key, true);
-        remoteSeed.setIP(ias.toString());
-
+        
 //      System.out.println("YACYHELLO: REMOTESEED=" + ((remoteSeed == null) ? "NULL" : remoteSeed.toString()));
         if ((remoteSeed == null) || (remoteSeed.hash == null)) {
             prop.put("message", "cannot parse your seed");
@@ -136,7 +138,8 @@ public final class hello {
             remoteSeed.setIP(reportedip);
             urls = yacyClient.queryUrlCount(remoteSeed);
         } else {
-            prop.put("yourip", "unknown");
+            prop.put("yourip", (ias == null) ? "" : ias.getHostAddress());
+            remoteSeed.setIP((ias == null) ? "" : ias.getHostAddress());
         }
 
         // if the previous attempt (using the reported ip address) was not successful, try the ip where 
diff --git a/htroot/yacy/query.java b/htroot/yacy/query.java
index ecb699705..c07e23b33 100644
--- a/htroot/yacy/query.java
+++ b/htroot/yacy/query.java
@@ -55,15 +55,19 @@ import de.anomic.yacy.yacyNetwork;
 
 public final class query {
 
+    // example:
+    // http://localhost:8080/yacy/query.html?youare=sCJ6Tq8T0N9x&object=lurlcount
+    
     public static serverObjects respond(httpHeader header, serverObjects post, serverSwitch<?> ss) {
         if (post == null || ss == null) { return null; }
 
         // return variable that accumulates replacements
         final plasmaSwitchboard sb = (plasmaSwitchboard) ss;
         final serverObjects prop = new serverObjects();
-        if ((post == null) || (ss == null)) return prop;
-        if (!yacyNetwork.authentifyRequest(post, ss)) return prop;
-        
+        if ((post == null) || (ss == null) || !yacyNetwork.authentifyRequest(post, ss)) {
+            prop.put("response", "-1"); // request rejected
+            return prop;
+        }
         
         if ((sb.isRobinsonMode()) &&
             (!sb.isPublicRobinson()) &&
diff --git a/source/de/anomic/plasma/plasmaSwitchboard.java b/source/de/anomic/plasma/plasmaSwitchboard.java
index 9120cbc96..d2d75a10b 100644
--- a/source/de/anomic/plasma/plasmaSwitchboard.java
+++ b/source/de/anomic/plasma/plasmaSwitchboard.java
@@ -2706,7 +2706,7 @@ public final class plasmaSwitchboard extends serverAbstractSwitch<IndexingStack.
                         yacyCore.log.logInfo("BOOTSTRAP: seed-list URL " + seedListFileURL + " too old (" + (header.age() / 86400000) + " days)");
                     } else {
                         ssc++;
-                        final byte[] content = HttpClient.wget(url.toString(), reqHeader, null, (int) getConfigLong("bootstrapLoadTimeout", 6000));
+                        final byte[] content = HttpClient.wget(url.toString(), reqHeader, null, (int) getConfigLong("bootstrapLoadTimeout", 20000));
                         seedList = nxTools.strings(content, "UTF-8");
                         enu = seedList.iterator();
                         lc = 0;
diff --git a/source/de/anomic/yacy/yacyClient.java b/source/de/anomic/yacy/yacyClient.java
index f4bd843ad..9ad6a431c 100644
--- a/source/de/anomic/yacy/yacyClient.java
+++ b/source/de/anomic/yacy/yacyClient.java
@@ -117,9 +117,10 @@ public final class yacyClient {
             // generate request
             post.add(new StringPart("count", "20"));
             post.add(new StringPart("seed", mySeed.genSeedStr(salt)));
-            yacyCore.log.logFine("yacyClient.publishMySeed thread '" + Thread.currentThread().getName() + "' contacting peer at " + address);
             // send request
-            byte[] content = wput("http://" + address + "/yacy/hello.html", yacySeed.b64Hash2hexHash(otherHash) + ".yacyh", post, 10000, false);
+            long start = System.currentTimeMillis();
+            byte[] content = wput("http://" + address + "/yacy/hello.html", yacySeed.b64Hash2hexHash(otherHash) + ".yacyh", post, 15000, false);
+            yacyCore.log.logInfo("yacyClient.publishMySeed thread '" + Thread.currentThread().getName() + "' contacted peer at " + address + ", received " + ((content == null) ? "null" : content.length) + " bytes, time = " + (System.currentTimeMillis() - start) + " milliseconds");
             result = nxTools.table(content, "UTF-8");
             break;
         } catch (Exception e) {