diff --git a/src/preflight.rs b/src/preflight.rs
index ba09afa..947a38a 100644
--- a/src/preflight.rs
+++ b/src/preflight.rs
@@ -402,19 +402,24 @@ mod tests {
 
     /// A shadowed hostname must not be counted as a reason to expect failure.
     /// This is the exact case the first version got wrong.
+    ///
+    /// Asserts the hostname check itself rather than counting states across the
+    /// whole run: `backend_reachable` opens real sockets, so an aggregate count
+    /// silently asserts that THIS machine has the OpenFUT ports open. That made
+    /// the test pass only on the server host and fail on the game machine, which
+    /// is precisely where someone building the launcher runs the suite.
     #[test]
     fn a_shadowed_hostname_is_a_warning_not_a_failure() {
         let mut c = cfg();
         c.openfut_server_host = "127.0.0.2".into();
         c.ea_hostnames = vec!["localhost".into()];
-        c.fifa17_tools_dir = "/nonexistent/openfut-tools".into();
-        // Machine-independence: this counts warnings across every check, so the
-        // game dir must not be a real one. A box with a hook deployed (the game
-        // machine always has one) would otherwise add a drift warning here.
-        c.fifa_game_dir = "/nonexistent/fifa-game-dir".into();
-        let checks = run(&c);
-        assert_eq!(failures(&checks), 0, "must not be reported as fatal");
-        assert_eq!(warnings(&checks), 1, "{checks:#?}");
+        let check = hostname_mapping(&c);
+        assert_eq!(check.state, State::Warn, "{}", check.detail);
+        assert!(
+            check.detail.contains("localhost"),
+            "the warning must name the shadowed host: {}",
+            check.detail
+        );
     }
 
     #[test]