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2 changed files with 4 additions and 2 deletions
@@ -118,7 +118,8 @@ everything by default and holds nothing but refusals, and the two ports it refus
 foundation's own, checked free at genesis, so it cannot close anything the machine serves; it is
 the mesh's, so the found firewall reloading does not touch it. It refuses the store's port and the
 broker's management port except from the private network and from the machine itself — its
-loopback and the container runtime's own networks — at the prerouting hook, ahead of the runtime's
+loopback and the container runtime's own networks, known by the interface a packet arrives on and
+never by its source address alone — at the prerouting hook, ahead of the runtime's
 destination translation, so it matches the port the packet was sent to, for both address
 families. The bus and the registry stay reachable from anywhere, as a node
 enrols over the bus and pulls from the registry before it has a private-network address
@@ -553,7 +553,8 @@ other resource. **The mesh guards its own ports in a table of its own that only
 passing everything by default and holding nothing but refusals of the foundation's own two ports,
 checked free at genesis, so it cannot close what the machine serves, and the found firewall's
 reload does not touch it. It refuses the store's port and the broker's management port except from
-the private network and the machine itself — loopback and the container runtime's networks — at
+the private network and the machine itself — loopback and the container runtime's networks, known by the interface a packet arrives on, never by
+its source address alone — at
 the prerouting hook, before the container runtime redirects the packet, so it matches the port the
 packet was sent to, for both address families; the
 bus, the registry and the hub's port stay reachable from anywhere, as a node enrols and pulls