diff --git a/src/network/udp_sender.rs b/src/network/udp_sender.rs
index 4f343d2a..61d07c2f 100644
--- a/src/network/udp_sender.rs
+++ b/src/network/udp_sender.rs
@@ -192,12 +192,33 @@ impl UDPSender {
     self.socket_ref(id).map(AsRawFd::as_raw_fd)
   }
 
+  /// Whether socket `id` can address `addr` at all. The unicast socket is
+  /// IPv4-only, and a multicast socket only speaks the family of the interface
+  /// address it was bound to. Sending across families fails with
+  /// `EAFNOSUPPORT` on every datagram, so we filter such destinations out
+  /// instead of letting them turn into a per-datagram warning. Peers legally
+  /// announce locators we cannot reach (a remote IPv6 locator, or our own
+  /// IPv6 interface addresses seen via loopback discovery), so this is normal.
+  fn socket_can_reach(&self, id: SocketId, addr: SocketAddr) -> bool {
+    match id {
+      SocketId::Unicast => addr.is_ipv4(),
+      SocketId::Multicast(i) => match self.multicast_sockets.get(i) {
+        Some((InterfaceSelector::Ip(iface_ip), _)) => iface_ip.is_ipv4() == addr.is_ipv4(),
+        None => false,
+      },
+    }
+  }
+
   /// One non-blocking datagram send. Never blocks; classifies the result.
   fn raw_send(&self, id: SocketId, addr: SocketAddr, buffer: &[u8]) -> SendOutcome {
     let Some(socket) = self.socket_ref(id) else {
       error!("raw_send: no socket for {id:?}");
       return SendOutcome::Dropped;
     };
+    if !self.socket_can_reach(id, addr) {
+      trace!("raw_send: {id:?} cannot reach {addr} (address family mismatch), dropping");
+      return SendOutcome::Dropped;
+    }
     match socket.send_to(buffer, addr) {
       Ok(bytes_sent) => {
         if bytes_sent != buffer.len() {
@@ -538,4 +559,27 @@ mod tests {
     assert_eq!(rec_data_2.len(), 6);
     assert_eq!(rec_data_2, data);
   }
+
+  // The unicast socket is IPv4-only, so an IPv6 destination is unreachable and
+  // must be dropped without attempting (and warning about) a send that can only
+  // ever fail with EAFNOSUPPORT.
+  #[test]
+  fn unicast_socket_rejects_ipv6_destination() {
+    let sender = UDPSender::new(11401).expect("failed to create UDPSender");
+
+    let v4_dest = SocketAddr::new(IpAddr::V4(Ipv4Addr::LOCALHOST), 10401);
+    let v6_dest = SocketAddr::new(
+      IpAddr::V6(std::net::Ipv6Addr::new(
+        0xfe80, 0, 0, 0, 0xd494, 0x8fff, 0xfe08, 0x3ce3,
+      )),
+      10401,
+    );
+
+    assert!(sender.socket_can_reach(SocketId::Unicast, v4_dest));
+    assert!(!sender.socket_can_reach(SocketId::Unicast, v6_dest));
+    assert_eq!(
+      sender.raw_send(SocketId::Unicast, v6_dest, &[0u8; 4]),
+      SendOutcome::Dropped
+    );
+  }
 }
diff --git a/src/network/util.rs b/src/network/util.rs
index 3736a2ae..7752daf6 100644
--- a/src/network/util.rs
+++ b/src/network/util.rs
@@ -209,6 +209,12 @@ fn get_local_unicast_locators_inner(
 ) -> Vec<Locator> {
   ifaces
     .iter()
+    // Our unicast transport (both `UDPListener` and the `UDPSender` unicast
+    // socket) is IPv4-only, so an announced IPv6 locator is unreachable: peers
+    // -- including our own participant, which discovers itself over multicast
+    // loopback -- would try to send there and get EAFNOSUPPORT per datagram.
+    // Link-local IPv6 is doubly useless, as a `Locator` carries no scope id.
+    .filter(|ifa| ifa.ip.is_ipv4())
     .filter(|ifa| only_networks.is_none_or(|nets| nets.contains(&ifa.ip)))
     .map(|ifa| Locator::from(SocketAddr::new(ifa.ip, port)))
     .collect()
@@ -405,6 +411,38 @@ mod tests {
     );
   }
 
+  // Our unicast transport is IPv4-only, so IPv6 interface addresses must never
+  // be announced as unicast locators: peers (and we ourselves, via loopback
+  // discovery) would send there and get EAFNOSUPPORT on every datagram.
+  #[test]
+  fn unicast_locators_exclude_ipv6() {
+    let ifaces = vec![
+      iface(v4(192, 168, 0, 10), 1, false, true),
+      // link-local IPv6, as found on e.g. docker0 / veth interfaces
+      iface(
+        IpAddr::V6(Ipv6Addr::new(
+          0xfe80, 0, 0, 0, 0xd494, 0x8fff, 0xfe08, 0x3ce3,
+        )),
+        1,
+        false,
+        true,
+      ),
+      iface(
+        IpAddr::V6(Ipv6Addr::new(0xfd73, 0x40a2, 0x1c3e, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1)),
+        1,
+        false,
+        true,
+      ),
+    ];
+
+    let filtered = get_local_unicast_locators_inner(&ifaces, 7412, None);
+
+    assert_eq!(
+      filtered,
+      vec![Locator::from(SocketAddr::new(v4(192, 168, 0, 10), 7412))]
+    );
+  }
+
   #[test]
   fn ifindex_map_prefers_ipv4_and_skips_index_zero() {
     let ifaces = vec![