diff --git a/scenarios/two-nodes.yml b/scenarios/two-nodes.yml
index c046332..17055ee 100644
--- a/scenarios/two-nodes.yml
+++ b/scenarios/two-nodes.yml
@@ -28,6 +28,13 @@ machines:
     egress: true
     inbound: allow
     memory: 2GiB
+  # A third machine that joins through the tunnel with the bus closed to it (novox/hq ADR 0169). It
+  # carries none of the images: it only has to join.
+  joiner:
+    at: { segment: hosting, address: [192.0.2.30] }
+    egress: true
+    inbound: allow
+    images: []
 
 images:
   - mesh-controller:development
diff --git a/test/integration/mesh.test.ts b/test/integration/mesh.test.ts
index 6287ba8..ea878bf 100644
--- a/test/integration/mesh.test.ts
+++ b/test/integration/mesh.test.ts
@@ -1662,3 +1662,30 @@ test("a third-party workload is adopted, with the credential it already had", {
 // a gap that bed should close; "a consumer's cache grant means exactly its own keys" — its tenancy
 // assertions (a write outside the consumer's keys and a FLUSHALL are refused) moved into
 // mesh-grant-end-to-end, against the catalogue's redis.
+
+// **A machine joins through the tunnel, and needs the bus only through it** (novox/hq ADR 0169).
+// The bus is closed to this machine at the anchor's very first hook, before the container runtime's
+// forwarding, so the only way its enrolment can arrive is over the tunnel the token gave it.
+test("a machine joins through the tunnel, with the bus closed to it", { skip, timeout: 900_000 }, async () => {
+  await must("anchor", `nft add table ip lab_bus_closed && ` +
+    `nft add chain ip lab_bus_closed pre '{ type filter hook prerouting priority -300; }' && ` +
+    `nft add rule ip lab_bus_closed pre ip saddr 192.0.2.30 tcp dport 4222 drop`);
+  try {
+    await must("joiner", `pacman -Sy --noconfirm --needed wireguard-tools >/dev/null 2>&1`);
+    const key = (await must("joiner", `${HOST_PATH} key 2>/dev/null`)).trim();
+    assert.match(key, /^[A-Za-z0-9+/]{43}=$/, `not a tunnel key: ${key}`);
+    // Asked again, the same key: a token may already have been issued for it.
+    assert.equal((await must("joiner", `${HOST_PATH} key 2>/dev/null`)).trim(), key);
+
+    const token = tokenFrom(await mesh(`token issue --new joiner --overlay-key ${key}`));
+    const said = await must("joiner", `${HOST_PATH} enrol --token ${quote(token)}`);
+    assert.match(said, /the tunnel to the hub is up/, said);
+    assert.match(said, /enrolled as joiner/, said);
+
+    const shakes = await must("joiner", `wg show mesh0 latest-handshakes`);
+    assert.ok(/\s[1-9]\d*\s*$/m.test(shakes), `the tunnel never shook hands with the hub: ${shakes}`);
+  } finally {
+    await on("anchor", `nft delete table ip lab_bus_closed`);
+  }
+});
+