diff --git a/bot_bottle/backend/docker/gateway.py b/bot_bottle/backend/docker/gateway.py
index 689ba5f0..1b44a9ed 100644
--- a/bot_bottle/backend/docker/gateway.py
+++ b/bot_bottle/backend/docker/gateway.py
@@ -148,6 +148,13 @@ class DockerGateway(Gateway):
                 )
         proc = run_docker([
             "docker", "network", "create",
+            # bot-bottle attribution pins IPv4 source IPs; it has no IPv6
+            # support. Disable IPv6 explicitly so a daemon that default-enables
+            # it (default-address-pools) can't attach an fdd0::/64 subnet — a
+            # malformed `::1/64` gateway address then trips docker's own
+            # ParseAddr in `network inspect`/`ls`, which poisons every launch
+            # that reads this network's subnet.
+            "--ipv6=false",
             "--subnet", self._subnet,
             "--label", f"{_GATEWAY_SUBNET_LABEL}={self._subnet}",
             self.network,
diff --git a/tests/unit/test_orchestrator_gateway.py b/tests/unit/test_orchestrator_gateway.py
index 7c8cbd2e..98ccdd49 100644
--- a/tests/unit/test_orchestrator_gateway.py
+++ b/tests/unit/test_orchestrator_gateway.py
@@ -215,6 +215,9 @@ class TestDockerGateway(unittest.TestCase):
         self.assertEqual(
             [[
                 "docker", "network", "create",
+                # IPv6 is disabled so a default-IPv6 daemon can't attach a
+                # malformed fdd0::/64 subnet that breaks `network inspect`.
+                "--ipv6=false",
                 "--subnet", DEFAULT_GATEWAY_SUBNET,
                 "--label",
                 f"bot-bottle.gateway-subnet={DEFAULT_GATEWAY_SUBNET}",