diff --git a/internal/catalogue/foundation_manifests_test.go b/internal/catalogue/foundation_manifests_test.go
index 5f032c6..7832aef 100644
--- a/internal/catalogue/foundation_manifests_test.go
+++ b/internal/catalogue/foundation_manifests_test.go
@@ -251,27 +251,13 @@ func TestTheForgesOwnAddressFollowsThePortTheNodeGaveIt(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
-// **And the port the forge publishes the long way is the node's too** (novox/hq ADR 0100).
-//
-// The forge's ssh port is written `2222:22` — the machine's own daemon holds 22, so the module
-// takes 2222 and says so in `listens`. A node whose predecessor served git on another number
-// cannot be told to leave it there unless the setting may name the machine side of that mapping,
-// which is the number the manifest itself uses everywhere else. Composed from the manifest in the
-// catalogue beside this checkout, because what the mesh can move is a fact about what the module
-// actually writes.
-func TestTheForgesSshPortIsGivenByTheNumberTheForgeCallsIt(t *testing.T) {
+// gitea's own sshd is unmodified — the module's own internal port is 22, the number in
+// `listens`, the same convention every other module in the catalogue uses (its internal port,
+// not an invented identity). Composed from the manifest in the catalogue beside this checkout,
+// because what the mesh publishes is a fact about what the module actually writes.
+func declaredGiteaSsh(t *testing.T, given map[int]int) map[string]any {
+	t.Helper()
 	forge := catalogueManifest(t, "gitea")
-	given, err := GivenPorts(forge, []Layer{{From: "anchor",
-		Values: map[string]any{PortsSetting: map[string]any{"2222": float64(222)}}}})
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("the forge's ssh port cannot be given on a node: %v", err)
-	}
-	// Under the number the module listens on — 2222, the machine side of its mapping — which is
-	// the number the plan, the filter, the openings and the consumer all ask for. One entry.
-	if want := map[int]int{2222: 222}; !reflect.DeepEqual(given, want) {
-		t.Fatalf("the forge was given %v, and it names its ssh port %v", given, want)
-	}
-
 	resolved, err := forge.Resolve([]Built{{
 		Name: "runtime", Kind: ArtifactImage,
 		Reference: "registry.example/gitea-runtime@sha256:" + strings.Repeat("a", 64),
@@ -286,9 +272,13 @@ func TestTheForgesSshPortIsGivenByTheNumberTheForgeCallsIt(t *testing.T) {
 		{Name: "secret", For: "gitea", From: "anchor", Local: "internal-token", Sealed: "sealed-token"},
 		{Name: "secret", For: "gitea", From: "anchor", Local: "admin", Sealed: "sealed-admin"},
 	}}
+	givenPorts := map[int]int{3000: 3000}
+	for k, v := range given {
+		givenPorts[k] = v
+	}
 	out, err := r.Declaration(Rendering{
 		Needed: map[string]map[string]string{"gitea": {"broker": "sealed-broker"}},
-		Ports:  map[string]map[int]int{"gitea": {3000: 3000, 2222: 222}},
+		Ports:  map[string]map[int]int{"gitea": givenPorts},
 		Given:  map[string]map[int]int{"gitea": given},
 	})
 	if err != nil {
@@ -298,8 +288,48 @@ func TestTheForgesSshPortIsGivenByTheNumberTheForgeCallsIt(t *testing.T) {
 	if server == nil {
 		t.Fatalf("the forge's own container is not in the declaration: %v", out)
 	}
-	if published := fmt.Sprint(server["ports"]); !strings.Contains(published, "222:22") ||
-		strings.Contains(published, "2222:22") {
+	return server
+}
+
+// **The forge publishes ssh at the mesh's own fixed convention by default** (novox/hq ADR 0100).
+//
+// `222` is the mesh's own public convention for the forge's ssh, written directly in the
+// manifest's `ports` — every node the forge has run on used the same number, so it needs no
+// per-node setting to reach it.
+func TestTheForgesSshPortIsTheMeshsFixedConventionByDefault(t *testing.T) {
+	forge := catalogueManifest(t, "gitea")
+	// Nothing was given — no node moved this port — which is the ordinary answer: the mesh only
+	// reports what a setting moved, and the manifest's own `222:22` needs no move to be reached.
+	given, err := GivenPorts(forge, nil)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("the forge's ssh port cannot be given on a node: %v", err)
+	}
+	if len(given) != 0 {
+		t.Fatalf("nothing moved the forge's ssh port, yet it was given %v", given)
+	}
+	server := declaredGiteaSsh(t, given)
+	if published := fmt.Sprint(server["ports"]); !strings.Contains(published, "222:22") {
+		t.Fatalf("the forge is published on %v, not its own fixed convention", server["ports"])
+	}
+}
+
+// **A node whose predecessor served git on a different number can still be told to leave it
+// there.** The setting names the port the module itself listens on — 22, gitea's own sshd, the
+// same number `listens` uses — not the mesh's own default machine-side number, so moving it does
+// not require guessing what the manifest happens to default to.
+func TestANodeMayGiveTheForgesSshPortADifferentNumber(t *testing.T) {
+	forge := catalogueManifest(t, "gitea")
+	given, err := GivenPorts(forge, []Layer{{From: "anchor",
+		Values: map[string]any{PortsSetting: map[string]any{"22": float64(9022)}}}})
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("the forge's ssh port cannot be moved on a node: %v", err)
+	}
+	if want := map[int]int{22: 9022}; !reflect.DeepEqual(given, want) {
+		t.Fatalf("the forge was given %v, and the setting named %v", given, want)
+	}
+	server := declaredGiteaSsh(t, given)
+	if published := fmt.Sprint(server["ports"]); !strings.Contains(published, "9022:22") ||
+		strings.Contains(published, "222:22") {
 		t.Fatalf("the forge is published on %v, not the port this node gave it", server["ports"])
 	}
 }
diff --git a/internal/catalogue/resolver_manifests_test.go b/internal/catalogue/resolver_manifests_test.go
index 9debbc1..3336380 100644
--- a/internal/catalogue/resolver_manifests_test.go
+++ b/internal/catalogue/resolver_manifests_test.go
@@ -101,7 +101,10 @@ func TestTheResolverAndWhatAsksItComposeOnOneMachine(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Fatalf("the resolver's data is the mesh's addresses, and nothing answering them was taken: %v", named(got))
 	}
 	out, err := got.Declaration(Rendering{
-		Names: twoMachines, Suffix: "internal",
+		// Names is every name the mesh serves; Machines is the subset that is a node (novox/hq
+		// issue 111) — the resolver's zones read only the second, and in this scenario the two
+		// happen to be the same map, since nothing routed is part of it.
+		Names: twoMachines, Machines: twoMachines, Suffix: "internal",
 		Needed: map[string]map[string]string{"dnsmasq": {"broker": "sealed"}},
 	})
 	if err != nil {