The panel captioned most rows with an IP address. The saved records were the source: `hosts add` falls back to the address when the pairing path knew nothing better, so `name` is literally "192.168.1.21" — and `mergeHosts` took `s.name || s.addr` unconditionally. The fallback only ever fired for an EMPTY name, so a name that was already a copy of the address sailed through as if it were meaningful, and the row printed the address twice: once as its title, once as its subtitle. The friendly name was in hand the whole time. The row is built by joining the saved record to the live advert, and that advert carries the host's actual hostname — the join was already trusted for address, port, online and OS, and only the name was read from the saved side alone. So treat a name equal to the record's own address as the placeholder it is and yield to the advert. A real saved name still wins, even when stale: it may be one the user chose, and an advert must never silently overwrite it. The comparison is against the SAVED address, so a host that moved DHCP lease still recognises its old address as a placeholder rather than mistaking it for a chosen name. Checked against the Deck that reported this, over its actual store and browse: three online rows turn into home-worker-5, ENRICOS-DESKTOP and steamdeck, the four offline ones keep their address (nothing is advertising a better name for them yet), and a user-chosen name survives a conflicting advert.