diff --git a/docs/INTEROP-BACKLOG.md b/docs/INTEROP-BACKLOG.md
index 0102d28..a770638 100644
--- a/docs/INTEROP-BACKLOG.md
+++ b/docs/INTEROP-BACKLOG.md
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 Generated by `tools/pasture/town.sh backlog --write` from `village-20261006-090128` on 2026-10-06. Do not edit by hand: fix the cause, or record a known gap in `tools/pasture/town/gaps.json`, and generate it again.
 
-Checks: 2577 pass, 0 fail, 1 known gaps, 0 known gaps now passing.
+Checks: 2581 pass, 0 fail, 1 known gaps, 0 known gaps now passing.
 
 ## New failures
 
diff --git a/tools/pasture/scenarios/crawler.sh b/tools/pasture/scenarios/crawler.sh
index 2e9454d..113b9f1 100644
--- a/tools/pasture/scenarios/crawler.sh
+++ b/tools/pasture/scenarios/crawler.sh
@@ -13,6 +13,9 @@ if [ "$(crawler | j "print(any(r['robotsDisallowed'] for r in d['recent']))")" =
 	until_true 60 'curl -fs -o /dev/null $P/build.json'
 fi
 [ "$(crawler | j "print(d['enabled'])")" = "True" ] && ok "the crawler is on" || { ko "the crawler is off: start PrivaPub with PRIVAPUB_ENV=Statistics__Crawler__Enabled=true"; return 0; }
+# (it visits one server a minute, every one PrivaPub knows: as the pasture grew, mastodon.test's turn came later than the
+# wait below, so its visit is brought forward)
+podman exec pasture-mongo mongosh --quiet PrivaPub --eval 'db.Job.updateMany({Kind: 9, State: 0, Host: "mastodon.test"}, {$set: {RunAt: new Date()}})' >/dev/null
 until_true 60 '[ "$(crawler | j "print(any(r[\"host\"]==\"mastodon.test\" and r[\"lastCrawledAt\"] for r in d[\"recent\"]))")" = "True" ]' \
 	&& ok "the crawler visited mastodon.test" || ko "the crawler never visited mastodon.test"
 [ "$(crawler | j "print(next(r['peersCount'] is not None for r in d['recent'] if r['host']=='mastodon.test'))")" = "True" ] \