diff --git a/backend/Dockerfile b/backend/Dockerfile
index 964cbb9..fd4f87c 100644
--- a/backend/Dockerfile
+++ b/backend/Dockerfile
@@ -10,7 +10,8 @@ RUN apt-get update \
 # exact crate versions CI tested. Without Cargo.lock + the flag, cargo
 # would silently resolve fresh on every image build.
 COPY Cargo.toml Cargo.lock ./
-RUN mkdir src && echo "fn main() {}" > src/main.rs && echo "" > src/lib.rs \
+RUN mkdir -p src/bin && echo "fn main() {}" > src/main.rs && echo "" > src/lib.rs \
+ && echo "fn main() {}" > src/bin/crawler.rs \
  && cargo build --locked --release \
  && rm -rf src
 
@@ -18,7 +19,10 @@ COPY src ./src
 COPY migrations ./migrations
 RUN touch src/main.rs src/lib.rs && cargo build --locked --release
 
-FROM debian:bookworm-slim
+FROM debian:trixie-slim
+# Runtime base must match the builder's Debian release: `rust:1-slim` tracks
+# trixie (glibc 2.41), so a bookworm runtime (glibc 2.36) can't run the
+# binary ("GLIBC_2.39 not found"). Keep these two in lockstep on bumps.
 # `curl` is for the container HEALTHCHECK; `ca-certificates` is for
 # outbound HTTPS (crawler covers/pages).
 RUN apt-get update \
diff --git a/frontend/Dockerfile b/frontend/Dockerfile
index dcca067..33f3824 100644
--- a/frontend/Dockerfile
+++ b/frontend/Dockerfile
@@ -24,10 +24,12 @@ COPY --from=builder --chown=node:node /app/package.json ./
 USER node
 EXPOSE 3000
 
-# Alpine's busybox `wget` is the canonical lightweight HTTP probe.
-# `--spider` doesn't follow redirects; `node build` serves a 200 on
-# `/` for the homepage so this works without a dedicated /health.
+# Alpine's busybox `wget` is the canonical lightweight HTTP probe. Probe
+# 127.0.0.1, not `localhost`: musl resolves `localhost` to IPv6 ::1 first,
+# but the Node server binds IPv4 0.0.0.0 only, so a localhost probe gets
+# "connection refused" and the container is wrongly marked unhealthy. Use a
+# GET (`-O /dev/null`) since `node build` serves 200 on `/`.
 HEALTHCHECK --interval=30s --timeout=5s --start-period=10s --retries=3 \
-  CMD wget -q --spider http://localhost:3000/ || exit 1
+  CMD wget -q -O /dev/null http://127.0.0.1:3000/ || exit 1
 
 CMD ["node", "build"]