diff --git a/Errno.cpp b/Errno.cpp
index 0f7d6776..7bd35fba 100644
--- a/Errno.cpp
+++ b/Errno.cpp
@@ -163,6 +163,7 @@ case    EHITCRAWLLIMIT: return "Hit the page download limit";
 case    EHITPROCESSLIMIT: return "Hit the page process limit";
 case    EINTERNALERROR: return "Internal error";
 case	EBADJSONPARSER: return "Bad JSON parser";
+case	EFAKEFIRSTIP: return "Fake firstIp";
 	}
 	// if the remote error bit is clear it must be a regulare errno
 	//if ( ! ( errnum & REMOTE_ERROR_BIT ) ) return strerror ( errnum );
diff --git a/Errno.h b/Errno.h
index 572b4bf0..780936a7 100644
--- a/Errno.h
+++ b/Errno.h
@@ -166,6 +166,7 @@ enum {
 	EHITCRAWLLIMIT,
 	EHITPROCESSLIMIT,
 	EINTERNALERROR,
-	EBADJSONPARSER
+	EBADJSONPARSER,
+	EFAKEFIRSTIP
 };
 #endif
diff --git a/XmlDoc.cpp b/XmlDoc.cpp
index 9ade67d2..240928bc 100644
--- a/XmlDoc.cpp
+++ b/XmlDoc.cpp
@@ -1898,18 +1898,26 @@ bool XmlDoc::indexDoc ( ) {
 	if ( ! status ) return false;
 
 	// done with no error?
-	if ( status && ! g_errno ) return true;
+	bool success = true;
+	if ( g_errno ) success = false;
+	// if we were trying to spider a fakefirstip request then
+	// pass through because we lookup the real firstip below and
+	// add a new request as well as a reply for this one
+	if ( m_indexCodeValid && m_indexCode == EFAKEFIRSTIP ) success = false;
+	if ( success ) return true;
 
 	///
 	// otherwise, an internal error. we must add a SpiderReply
 	// to spiderdb to release the lock.
 	///
 
-	if ( m_firstUrlValid ) 
+ logErr:
+
+	if ( m_firstUrlValid && g_errno ) 
 		log("build: %s had internal error = %s. adding spider "
 		    "error reply.",
 		    m_firstUrl.m_url,mstrerror(g_errno));
-	else
+	else if ( g_errno )
 		log("build: docid=%lli had internal error = %s. adding spider "
 		    "error reply.",
 		    m_docId,mstrerror(g_errno));
@@ -1920,6 +1928,43 @@ bool XmlDoc::indexDoc ( ) {
 		m_indexCodeValid = true;
 	}
 
+	// if our spiderrequest had a fake "firstip" so that it could be
+	// injected quickly into spiderdb, then do the firstip lookup here
+	// and re-add the new spider request with that, and add the reply
+	// to the fake firstip request below.
+	if ( m_indexCodeValid && m_indexCode == EFAKEFIRSTIP ) {
+		// at least get this if possible
+		long *fip = getFirstIp();
+		if ( fip == (void *) -1 ) return false;
+		// error? g_errno will be changed if this is NULL
+		if ( ! fip ) {
+			log("build: error getting real firstip: %s",
+			    mstrerror(g_errno));
+			m_indexCode = EINTERNALERROR;
+			m_indexCodeValid = true;
+			goto logErr;
+		}
+		// store the new request (store reply for this below)
+		m_metaList2.pushChar(RDB_SPIDERDB);
+		if ( ! m_oldsrValid ) { char *xx=NULL;*xx=0; }
+		// 
+		SpiderRequest sreq;
+		memcpy ( &sreq , &m_oldsr , m_oldsr.getRecSize() );
+		sreq.m_firstIp = *fip;
+		// but turn off this flag! the whole point of all this...
+		sreq.m_fakeFirstIp = 0;
+		// firstip is part of the key!
+		long long uh48 = sreq.getUrlHash48();
+		sreq.setKey ( sreq.m_firstIp ,
+			      0LL , // parentDocId , 
+			      uh48 , 
+			      false ); // del?
+		// and store that new request for adding
+		if ( ! m_metaList2.safeMemcpy ( &sreq , sreq.getRecSize() ) )
+			return true;
+	}
+
+
 	////
 	//
 	// make these fake so getNewSpiderReply() below does not block
@@ -1969,8 +2014,11 @@ bool XmlDoc::indexDoc ( ) {
 	if ( ! cr ) return true;
 
 	//SafeBuf metaList;
-	m_metaList2.pushChar(RDB_SPIDERDB);
-	m_metaList2.safeMemcpy ( (char *)nsr , nsr->getRecSize() );
+	if ( ! m_metaList2.pushChar(RDB_SPIDERDB) )
+		return true;
+
+	if ( ! m_metaList2.safeMemcpy ( (char *)nsr , nsr->getRecSize() ) )
+		return true;
 
 	m_msg4Launched = true;
 
@@ -2017,6 +2065,16 @@ bool XmlDoc::indexDoc2 ( ) {
 	CollectionRec *cr = getCollRec();
 	if ( ! cr ) return true;
 
+
+	// do this before we increment pageDownloadAttempts below so that
+	// john's smoke tests, which use those counts, are not affected
+	if ( m_oldsrValid && m_oldsr.m_fakeFirstIp ) {
+		m_indexCodeValid = true;
+		m_indexCode = EFAKEFIRSTIP;
+		return true;
+	}
+
+
 	// ensure that CollectionRec::m_globalCrawlInfo (spider stats)
 	// is at least 1 minute in sync with counts of
 	// all hosts in network. this returns false if it sent  out requests
diff --git a/gb.conf b/gb.conf
index 6abab818..0bb6da46 100644
--- a/gb.conf
+++ b/gb.conf
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@
 <doNarrowSearch>0</>
 
 # Overrides all spidering for all collections on just this host.
-<localSpideringEnabled>0</>
+<localSpideringEnabled>1</>
 
 # Overrides all add urls for all collections on just this host.
 <localAddUrlEnabled>1</>