diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index a948dec..27dde45 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ except:
 
 setuptools.setup(
         name='warcprox',
-        version='2.4b3.dev190',
+        version='2.4b3.dev192',
         description='WARC writing MITM HTTP/S proxy',
         url='https://github.com/internetarchive/warcprox',
         author='Noah Levitt',
diff --git a/tests/test_warcprox.py b/tests/test_warcprox.py
index 080e0ff..c67c6ff 100755
--- a/tests/test_warcprox.py
+++ b/tests/test_warcprox.py
@@ -1576,8 +1576,11 @@ def test_svcreg_status(warcprox_):
                 'rates_15min', 'active_requests','start_time','urls_processed',
                 'warc_bytes_written', 'postfetch_chain',
                 'earliest_still_active_fetch_start',}
+        assert status['id'] == 'warcprox:%s:%s' % (
+                socket.gethostname(), warcprox_.proxy.server_port)
         assert status['role'] == 'warcprox'
         assert status['version'] == warcprox.__version__
+        assert status['host'] == socket.gethostname()
         assert status['port'] == warcprox_.proxy.server_port
         assert status['pid'] == os.getpid()
         assert status['threads'] == warcprox_.proxy.pool._max_workers
diff --git a/warcprox/controller.py b/warcprox/controller.py
index 1eed21b..80eca1c 100644
--- a/warcprox/controller.py
+++ b/warcprox/controller.py
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ import functools
 import doublethink
 import importlib
 import queue
+import socket
 
 class Factory:
     @staticmethod
@@ -319,13 +320,15 @@ class WarcproxController(object):
             status_info = self.status_info
         else:
             status_info = {
+                'id': 'warcprox:%s:%s' % (
+                    socket.gethostname(), self.proxy.server_port),
                 'role': 'warcprox',
                 'version': warcprox.__version__,
                 'ttl': self.HEARTBEAT_INTERVAL * 3,
+                'host': socket.gethostname(),
                 'port': self.proxy.server_port,
             }
         status_info.update(self.proxy.status())
-
         self.status_info = self.service_registry.heartbeat(status_info)
         self.logger.trace('status in service registry: %s', self.status_info)
 
diff --git a/warcprox/mitmproxy.py b/warcprox/mitmproxy.py
index 7a7751e..1fc0c72 100644
--- a/warcprox/mitmproxy.py
+++ b/warcprox/mitmproxy.py
@@ -464,6 +464,7 @@ class MitmProxyHandler(http_server.BaseHTTPRequestHandler):
             req += self.rfile.read(int(self.headers['Content-Length']))
 
         prox_rec_res = None
+        start = time.time()
         try:
             self.logger.debug('sending to remote server req=%r', req)
 
@@ -490,6 +491,15 @@ class MitmProxyHandler(http_server.BaseHTTPRequestHandler):
                             'bytes exceeded for URL %s',
                             self._max_resource_size, self.url)
                     break
+                elif (not 'content-length' in self.headers
+                        and time.time() - start > 3 * 60 * 60):
+                    prox_rec_res.truncated = b'time'
+                    self._remote_server_conn.sock.shutdown(socket.SHUT_RDWR)
+                    self._remote_server_conn.sock.close()
+                    self.logger.info(
+                            'reached hard timeout of 3 hours fetching url '
+                            'without content-length: %s', self.url)
+                    break
 
             self.log_request(prox_rec_res.status, prox_rec_res.recorder.len)
             # Let's close off the remote end. If remote connection is fine,