diff --git a/NucleicRemote/NucleicRemote/Models/HostConnection.swift b/NucleicRemote/NucleicRemote/Models/HostConnection.swift
index a6c9358..654ab5f 100644
--- a/NucleicRemote/NucleicRemote/Models/HostConnection.swift
+++ b/NucleicRemote/NucleicRemote/Models/HostConnection.swift
@@ -478,8 +478,18 @@ final class HostConnection {
                 else { continue }
                 let fingerprint = member.staticPublicKey.fingerprintHex
                 guard fingerprint != self.hostID else { continue }  // that's the Mac we're on
-                if IdentityStore.pairedHost(id: fingerprint) == nil { changed = true }
-                IdentityStore.mergePairedHost(Self.pairedHost(from: member))
+                let incoming = Self.pairedHost(from: member)
+                let existing = IdentityStore.pairedHost(id: fingerprint)
+                // Re-dial not only when a Mac is brand-new, but also when a known Mac's dialable
+                // address changed — a Mac's LAN port is OS-assigned (`.any`), so it lands on a
+                // fresh one every relaunch and re-gossips it. `mergePairedHost` updates the
+                // registry in place, but a connection already retrying the dead old address won't
+                // pick that up on its own (its retry loop reuses the address it was last handed),
+                // so without forcing a fresh reconnect here the phone never reconnects to it.
+                if existing == nil || Self.dialableAddressChanged(from: existing!, to: incoming) {
+                    changed = true
+                }
+                IdentityStore.mergePairedHost(incoming)
             }
             for tombstone in push.tombstones {
                 // fingerprint = first 16 hex of the hostID (sha256 prefix), the registry key.