diff --git a/cmd/mesh-controller/network.go b/cmd/mesh-controller/network.go
index 3c1e0b6..7f62c24 100644
--- a/cmd/mesh-controller/network.go
+++ b/cmd/mesh-controller/network.go
@@ -396,14 +396,17 @@ func onTheNetwork(ctx context.Context, inv *inventory.Inventory,
 	return out, nil
 }
 
-// onThePrivateNetwork is every node's address on the overlay, sorted.
+// onThePrivateNetwork is every node's address on the private network, sorted — the same set
+// the names and the resolver mean by it (onTheNetwork), so a rule saying "from the mesh" admits
+// exactly the machines the mesh names.
 //
 // A node with no address is left out rather than rendered as an empty source: an empty entry in a
 // source set is a syntax error in the rule file, and a rule file that does not load leaves the
 // node filtering whatever it was filtering before -- the one outcome worse than a wrong rule,
 // because nothing reports it.
-func onThePrivateNetwork(ctx context.Context, inv *inventory.Inventory) ([]string, error) {
-	places, err := inv.Overlays(ctx)
+func onThePrivateNetwork(ctx context.Context, inv *inventory.Inventory,
+	shelf map[string]catalogue.Manifest) ([]string, error) {
+	places, err := onTheNetwork(ctx, inv, shelf)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}
diff --git a/cmd/mesh-controller/network_test.go b/cmd/mesh-controller/network_test.go
index da7f02b..ec42473 100644
--- a/cmd/mesh-controller/network_test.go
+++ b/cmd/mesh-controller/network_test.go
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import (
 	"testing"
 
 	"github.com/novox/mesh-controller/internal/inventory"
+	"github.com/novox/mesh-controller/internal/overlay"
 )
 
 // placementOf is what the mesh holds about where one node is.
@@ -96,7 +97,7 @@ func TestOnlyAMachineOnThePrivateNetworkIsNamed(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Fatalf("two machines on the network are not both named: %v", names)
 	}
 	// The laptop keeps its place and its address, and stops running the network.
-	if err := open.inventory.Unassign(ctx, "laptop", "mesh-wireguard"); err != nil {
+	if err := open.inventory.Unassign(ctx, "laptop", overlay.Name); err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
 	names, err = namesInTheMesh(ctx, open.inventory, shelf)
diff --git a/cmd/mesh-controller/plan.go b/cmd/mesh-controller/plan.go
index f3d49e7..55d09fc 100644
--- a/cmd/mesh-controller/plan.go
+++ b/cmd/mesh-controller/plan.go
@@ -426,7 +426,12 @@ func declarationWith(ctx context.Context, open *stores, node string,
 	// resolves to. Every node's address, including this one's: a machine reaching itself by its
 	// own overlay address rather than by loopback is ordinary, and leaving it out would filter
 	// the node's own traffic to itself with no rule naming why.
-	private, err := onThePrivateNetwork(ctx, inv)
+	// One reading of the catalogue for the three questions below that resolve the whole mesh.
+	shelf, err := inv.Catalogue(ctx)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	private, err := onThePrivateNetwork(ctx, inv, shelf)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}
@@ -434,10 +439,6 @@ func declarationWith(ctx context.Context, open *stores, node string,
 	// And every machine's name, so a container can reach one. The same set that writes the
 	// machine's own hosts file — one reading, so a container and its machine cannot disagree
 	// about where another machine is.
-	shelf, err := inv.Catalogue(ctx)
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, err
-	}
 	names, err := namesInTheMesh(ctx, inv, shelf)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err