diff --git a/docs/gotchas.md b/docs/gotchas.md
index c50421be..4c106d3d 100644
--- a/docs/gotchas.md
+++ b/docs/gotchas.md
@@ -72,6 +72,32 @@ the path entry resolves to `/run/wrappers/bin/bin` instead.
 hive-c0re restarts. Without it, every restart wipes bind sources and
 existing containers can't be started.
 
+### `RestrictAddressFamilies` fails as "Address family not supported by protocol"
+
+A unit whose `RestrictAddressFamilies` omits a family gets `EAFNOSUPPORT`
+(errno 97) back from `socket()`. Clients surface that as *"tcp open error:
+Address family not supported by protocol"* — the message names the
+**protocol** and never the **sandbox**, so it reads like a dead network, a
+missing route, or an IPv6 problem.
+
+⇒ On that error, read the unit before you touch the network.
+
+Two things to get right when a daemon needs outbound TCP:
+
+- list `AF_INET` **and** `AF_INET6` — omitting one leaves a client that
+  works until DNS hands back the other family;
+- list `AF_NETLINK` too. glibc's `getaddrinfo` opens a netlink socket to
+  enumerate local addresses before it returns any, so name resolution
+  fails without it even when `AF_INET` is allowed.
+
+**The directive is a claim about what the program does, and nothing
+re-checks it when the program changes.** A unit that only served a unix
+socket when it was written is correct at `[ "AF_UNIX" ]` and silently wrong
+the day someone adds an HTTP client. Check the unit in the same commit as
+the client — and when narrowing it, prefer a test that derives the required
+families from the code (which fails on the *next* client too) over one that
+asserts today's list.
+
 ### `register_agent` is idempotent
 
 Drops any prior socket task before rebinding. Required so a
diff --git a/nix/host-modules/swarm-controller.nix b/nix/host-modules/swarm-controller.nix
index 90c2ca67..9c8b1fca 100644
--- a/nix/host-modules/swarm-controller.nix
+++ b/nix/host-modules/swarm-controller.nix
@@ -508,8 +508,7 @@ in
         StateDirectoryMode = "0750";
 
         # Nothing here needs a writable filesystem, real privileges, or a
-        # view of the rest of the machine; the daemon reads its socket path
-        # from config and serves.
+        # view of the rest of the machine.
         PrivateTmp = true;
         ProtectSystem = "strict";
         ProtectHome = true;
@@ -518,8 +517,27 @@ in
         ProtectKernelTunables = true;
         ProtectKernelModules = true;
         ProtectControlGroups = true;
+
+        # `AF_UNIX` for the socket this daemon serves on, plus what its
+        # outbound clients need: it mints authelia tokens and calls the forge
+        # over HTTPS (`auth.rs`, `forge.rs`) and reaches the queue over NATS
+        # (`main.rs`, `status.rs`). `AF_NETLINK` because glibc's
+        # `getaddrinfo` opens a netlink socket to enumerate local addresses
+        # before it will return one.
+        #
+        # ⚠️ This list is a CLAIM ABOUT WHAT THE DAEMON DOES, so it goes stale
+        # the moment the daemon grows a client — and it goes stale in the
+        # worst available way: a blocked family makes `socket()` return
+        # EAFNOSUPPORT, i.e. "Address family not supported by protocol", so
+        # the error names the protocol and never the sandbox that refused it.
+        # This was `AF_UNIX`-only while the daemon merely served its socket;
+        # all three clients above arrived later, and the restriction was not
+        # revisited. Add the family when you add the client.
         RestrictAddressFamilies = [
           "AF_UNIX"
+          "AF_INET"
+          "AF_INET6"
+          "AF_NETLINK"
         ];
       };