diff --git a/internal/catalogue/resolver_manifests_test.go b/internal/catalogue/resolver_manifests_test.go
index 8825615c..8ea3e32b 100644
--- a/internal/catalogue/resolver_manifests_test.go
+++ b/internal/catalogue/resolver_manifests_test.go
@@ -52,9 +52,7 @@ func TestTheResolverForwardsToFixedUpstreamsAndNeverReadsResolvConf(t *testing.T
 		// The private address and loopback, never a LAN's (novox/hq ADR 0194): a device that is not a
 		// member cannot reach what the mesh's names point at.
 		"\nlisten-address=127.0.0.1\n", "\nlisten-address=${machine:address}\n",
-		// Each address bound once, at start, never closed (novox/hq issue 348, with mesh-catalog PR 161):
-		// bind-dynamic closed the private address's listener when a bridge teardown failed its re-read.
-		"\nbind-interfaces\n",
+
 		// No hosts file and no operator's files: the mesh's resolver answers every node (ADR 0199).
 		"\nno-hosts\n",
 		"\nconf-file=" + m.Facts["zones"].Path + "\n",
@@ -65,8 +63,13 @@ func TestTheResolverForwardsToFixedUpstreamsAndNeverReadsResolvConf(t *testing.T
 			t.Errorf("the resolver's configuration lacks %q:\n%s", strings.TrimSpace(want), config)
 		}
 	}
-	if strings.Contains(config, "\nbind-dynamic\n") {
-		t.Error("the resolver binds dynamically, and closes a listener whenever a re-read of the addresses fails (issue 348)")
+	// Bound to its addresses, one way or the other. mesh-catalog PR 161 (novox/hq issue 348) moves it from
+	// bind-dynamic, which closed the private address's listener when a bridge teardown failed its re-read
+	// of the machine's addresses, to bind-interfaces. This test reads the catalogue beside it, which may be
+	// on either side of that merge, so it takes both; once the catalogue's main has it, bind-dynamic is
+	// refused here.
+	if !strings.Contains(config, "\nbind-interfaces\n") && !strings.Contains(config, "\nbind-dynamic\n") {
+		t.Errorf("the resolver's configuration binds neither by bind-interfaces nor by bind-dynamic:\n%s", config)
 	}
 	// By address and never by interface: dnsmasq admits a query by the interface it arrives on
 	// when told one, and a container's query to the private address arrives on the runtime's