diff --git a/.gitea/workflows/build.yml b/.gitea/workflows/build.yml
index f69cb99..3c3d8dc 100644
--- a/.gitea/workflows/build.yml
+++ b/.gitea/workflows/build.yml
@@ -28,6 +28,27 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Set up Docker Buildx
         uses: docker/setup-buildx-action@v3
+        with:
+          # Put BuildKit in the host's network namespace so it can reach
+          # act_runner's cache service.
+          #
+          # The `docker-container` driver — which the multi-arch build below
+          # requires, since the plain `docker` driver cannot do
+          # linux/amd64+linux/arm64 — runs BuildKit in its *own* container on
+          # Docker's default bridge. act_runner advertises ACTIONS_CACHE_URL as
+          # an address the *job* container can reach, and nothing teaches the
+          # BuildKit container about it: the job could reach
+          # 192.168.1.126:40649 while the container actually making the request
+          # could not, and the build died with `no route to host`.
+          #
+          # `no route to host` is EHOSTUNREACH — a firewall rejecting, not a
+          # missing route (a wrong address times out instead) — which is what a
+          # default firewalld zone does to traffic arriving from the docker
+          # bridge. Sharing the host's namespace sidesteps the question
+          # entirely: the cache address becomes local to BuildKit.
+          #
+          # No effect on runners where this already worked.
+          driver-opts: network=host
 
       - name: Login to Gitea Container Registry
         uses: docker/login-action@v3