diff --git a/apps/lnd-ui/manifest.yml b/apps/lnd-ui/manifest.yml
index a33c1c80..713a1afe 100644
--- a/apps/lnd-ui/manifest.yml
+++ b/apps/lnd-ui/manifest.yml
@@ -22,14 +22,20 @@ app:
 
   security:
     readonly_root: false
-    network_policy: bridge
+    network_policy: host
 
-  # Bridge networking via archy-net. Container nginx listens on 80;
-  # host nginx proxies /app/lnd/ -> 127.0.0.1:18083 -> container:80.
-  ports:
-    - host: 18083
-      container: 80
-      protocol: tcp
+  # Host networking: the container's nginx listens on 18083 directly (see
+  # docker/lnd-ui/nginx.conf), because it has to proxy the archipelago backend
+  # on 127.0.0.1:5678 same-origin — a bridge container cannot reach that, and
+  # the cross-origin fallback broke the app on http-only nodes. `ports:` is
+  # intentionally empty because host networking bypasses port mapping, exactly
+  # as in apps/bitcoin-ui/manifest.yml.
+  #
+  # This previously declared `bridge` with 18083:80, which publishes the host
+  # port to a container port where nothing listens. scripts/container-specs.sh
+  # carried the identical mistake and was fixed alongside this; recreating from
+  # it on archi-dev-box left :18083 refusing connections.
+  ports: []
 
   volumes: []