diff --git a/src/Server/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Runtime/Drivers/DriverHostActor.cs b/src/Server/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Runtime/Drivers/DriverHostActor.cs
index b708339e..519319b4 100644
--- a/src/Server/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Runtime/Drivers/DriverHostActor.cs
+++ b/src/Server/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Runtime/Drivers/DriverHostActor.cs
@@ -488,6 +488,9 @@ public sealed class DriverHostActor : ReceiveActor, IWithTimers
         Receive<RouteNodeWrite>(HandleRouteNodeWrite);
         Receive<RouteNativeAlarmAck>(HandleRouteNativeAlarmAck);
         Receive<RedundancyStateChanged>(OnRedundancyStateChanged);
+        // The redundancy-state topic also carries OpcUaProbeResult (OpcUaPublishActor peer-probes).
+        // We don't consume it here — drop it so it doesn't dead-letter (matches PeerProbeSupervisor).
+        Receive<ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Runtime.Health.PeerOpcUaProbeActor.OpcUaProbeResult>(_ => { });
         Receive<SubscribeAck>(_ => { /* PubSub ack */ });
     }
 
@@ -513,6 +516,9 @@ public sealed class DriverHostActor : ReceiveActor, IWithTimers
         Receive<RouteNodeWrite>(HandleRouteNodeWrite);
         Receive<RouteNativeAlarmAck>(HandleRouteNativeAlarmAck);
         Receive<RedundancyStateChanged>(OnRedundancyStateChanged);
+        // The redundancy-state topic also carries OpcUaProbeResult (OpcUaPublishActor peer-probes).
+        // We don't consume it here — drop it so it doesn't dead-letter (matches PeerProbeSupervisor).
+        Receive<ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Runtime.Health.PeerOpcUaProbeActor.OpcUaProbeResult>(_ => { });
         Receive<SubscribeAck>(_ => { /* PubSub ack */ });
     }
 
@@ -759,6 +765,9 @@ public sealed class DriverHostActor : ReceiveActor, IWithTimers
         Receive<RestartDriver>(HandleRestartDriver);
         Receive<ReconnectDriver>(HandleReconnectDriver);
         Receive<RedundancyStateChanged>(OnRedundancyStateChanged);
+        // The redundancy-state topic also carries OpcUaProbeResult (OpcUaPublishActor peer-probes).
+        // We don't consume it here — drop it so it doesn't dead-letter (matches PeerProbeSupervisor).
+        Receive<ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Runtime.Health.PeerOpcUaProbeActor.OpcUaProbeResult>(_ => { });
         // An inbound operator write can't be serviced while the config DB is unreachable — fast-fail so the
         // node-manager's bounded Ask gets an immediate clear status instead of dead-lettering into a timeout.
         Receive<RouteNodeWrite>(_ =>
diff --git a/src/Server/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Runtime/Historian/HistorianAdapterActor.cs b/src/Server/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Runtime/Historian/HistorianAdapterActor.cs
index 130c984f..77928341 100644
--- a/src/Server/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Runtime/Historian/HistorianAdapterActor.cs
+++ b/src/Server/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Runtime/Historian/HistorianAdapterActor.cs
@@ -84,6 +84,9 @@ public sealed class HistorianAdapterActor : ReceiveActor
         // cache this node's role so the historize gate can scope the durable sink enqueue to the Primary.
         // The PubSub Subscribe acks (redundancy-state + alerts) are acked back to Self (no-op below).
         Receive<RedundancyStateChanged>(OnRedundancyStateChanged);
+        // The redundancy-state topic also carries OpcUaProbeResult (OpcUaPublishActor peer-probes).
+        // We don't consume it here — drop it so it doesn't dead-letter (matches PeerProbeSupervisor).
+        Receive<ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Runtime.Health.PeerOpcUaProbeActor.OpcUaProbeResult>(_ => { });
         Receive<SubscribeAck>(_ => { });
     }
 
diff --git a/src/Server/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Runtime/ScriptedAlarms/ScriptedAlarmHostActor.cs b/src/Server/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Runtime/ScriptedAlarms/ScriptedAlarmHostActor.cs
index 044a7e9f..178fe93c 100644
--- a/src/Server/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Runtime/ScriptedAlarms/ScriptedAlarmHostActor.cs
+++ b/src/Server/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Runtime/ScriptedAlarms/ScriptedAlarmHostActor.cs
@@ -190,6 +190,9 @@ public sealed class ScriptedAlarmHostActor : ReceiveActor
         // A LoadAsync cancelled by PostStop's _cts pipes back this marker. The actor is stopping, so
         // there's nothing to do — swallow it quietly (no Warning, no dead letter).
         Receive<AlarmsLoadCanceled>(_ => { });
+        // The redundancy-state topic also carries OpcUaProbeResult (OpcUaPublishActor peer-probes).
+        // We don't consume it here — drop it so it doesn't dead-letter (matches PeerProbeSupervisor).
+        Receive<ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Runtime.Health.PeerOpcUaProbeActor.OpcUaProbeResult>(_ => { });
         // DPS Subscribe (PreStart) acks back here once the mediator has registered Self on the topic.
         // No-op — the subscription is live the moment the ack arrives; we only need to keep it off the
         // dead-letter log. Matches OpcUaPublishActor / DriverHostActor's SubscribeAck convention.
diff --git a/tests/Server/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Runtime.Tests/Drivers/DriverHostActorProbeResultDropTests.cs b/tests/Server/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Runtime.Tests/Drivers/DriverHostActorProbeResultDropTests.cs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..a9c7df56
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/Server/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Runtime.Tests/Drivers/DriverHostActorProbeResultDropTests.cs
@@ -0,0 +1,106 @@
+using Akka.Actor;
+using Akka.Cluster.Tools.PublishSubscribe;
+using Akka.Event;
+using Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore;
+using Xunit;
+using ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Commons.Types;
+using ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Configuration;
+using ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Runtime.Drivers;
+using ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Runtime.Health;
+using ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Runtime.OpcUa;
+using ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Runtime.Tests.Harness;
+
+namespace ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Runtime.Tests.Drivers;
+
+/// <summary>
+///     Guard test: verifies that a <see cref="PeerOpcUaProbeActor.OpcUaProbeResult"/> published on the
+///     <c>redundancy-state</c> DistributedPubSub topic does NOT produce a dead-letter in
+///     <see cref="DriverHostActor"/>.
+///
+///     <para>
+///         Background: <see cref="DriverHostActor"/> subscribes the <c>redundancy-state</c> topic so
+///         <see cref="ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Commons.Messages.Redundancy.RedundancyStateChanged"/> snapshots
+///         land and cache the node's role.  The SAME topic also carries
+///         <see cref="PeerOpcUaProbeActor.OpcUaProbeResult"/> messages (published by
+///         <see cref="OpcUaPublishActor"/> peer-probes) which <see cref="DriverHostActor"/> does not
+///         consume.  Without an explicit drop handler the actor logs an unhandled-message warning and
+///         the message becomes a dead-letter — noisy but benign.  The fix adds an intentional-drop
+///         <c>Receive</c> in every behaviour (<c>Steady</c>, <c>Applying</c>, <c>Stale</c>), mirroring
+///         <see cref="PeerProbeSupervisor"/>.
+///     </para>
+///
+///     <para>
+///         The test uses <see cref="DriverHostActor"/>'s <c>Stale</c> path (bootstrapped with a
+///         throwing DB factory) because it requires no deployment artifact or apply round-trip, making
+///         the harness minimal while still exercising the subscription and the message-dispatch fix.
+///         The Stale behaviour is one of the three that was patched; <c>Steady</c> and <c>Applying</c>
+///         are covered by inspection + build (all three use the same <c>Receive</c> registration
+///         pattern, so a compile-time pass on the Runtime project is the correctness gate for those).
+///     </para>
+/// </summary>
+public sealed class DriverHostActorProbeResultDropTests : RuntimeActorTestBase
+{
+    private static readonly NodeId TestNode = NodeId.Parse("probe-drop-test");
+    private static readonly TimeSpan Timeout = TimeSpan.FromSeconds(5);
+
+    /// <summary>
+    ///     A <see cref="PeerOpcUaProbeActor.OpcUaProbeResult"/> published on the redundancy-state
+    ///     topic must NOT produce an <see cref="AllDeadLetters"/> event on the
+    ///     <see cref="ActorSystem.EventStream"/> after the fix.
+    /// </summary>
+    [Fact]
+    public void ProbeResult_on_redundancy_topic_does_not_dead_letter_in_DriverHostActor()
+    {
+        // Wire a dead-letter probe that ONLY passes through messages carrying an OpcUaProbeResult
+        // payload.  Everything else (SubscribeAck, health-poll noise, etc.) is ignored so the probe
+        // mailbox is precise and ExpectNoMsg is race-free.
+        var deadLetterProbe = CreateTestProbe();
+        deadLetterProbe.IgnoreMessages(
+            m => m is not AllDeadLetters { Message: PeerOpcUaProbeActor.OpcUaProbeResult });
+        Sys.EventStream.Subscribe(deadLetterProbe.Ref, typeof(AllDeadLetters));
+
+        // Spin up the actor in Stale state (ThrowingDbFactory ⇒ Bootstrap's catch ⇒ Become(Stale)).
+        // Stale subscribes the redundancy-state topic in PreStart, so it will receive the probe
+        // message once the subscription is established.
+        var actor = Sys.ActorOf(DriverHostActor.Props(
+            new ThrowingDbFactory(), TestNode, CreateTestProbe().Ref,
+            localRoles: new HashSet<string> { "driver" }));
+
+        // Wait until the actor has subscribed to the redundancy-state topic.  We do this by having a
+        // test probe subscribe to the same topic and waiting for its ack: once BOTH subscriptions are
+        // registered the mediator will fan-out any subsequent Publish to both subscribers.  This avoids
+        // a fixed sleep and is the same barrier DriverHostActorNativeAlarmTests uses for the alerts topic.
+        var barrierProbe = CreateTestProbe();
+        DistributedPubSub.Get(Sys).Mediator.Tell(
+            new Subscribe(OpcUaPublishActor.RedundancyStateTopic, barrierProbe.Ref),
+            barrierProbe.Ref);
+        barrierProbe.ExpectMsg<SubscribeAck>(Timeout);
+
+        // Publish an OpcUaProbeResult to the redundancy-state topic.  The mediator fans it out to
+        // every subscriber — including the DriverHostActor — so it lands on the actor's mailbox.
+        DistributedPubSub.Get(Sys).Mediator.Tell(
+            new Publish(OpcUaPublishActor.RedundancyStateTopic,
+                new PeerOpcUaProbeActor.OpcUaProbeResult(TestNode, Ok: true)));
+
+        // BARRIER: send a synchronous RouteNodeWrite (which Stale handles synchronously with an
+        // immediate fast-fail reply) and await its response.  Once the reply arrives, the actor has
+        // drained its mailbox past the OpcUaProbeResult message, so any dead-letter from an unhandled
+        // OpcUaProbeResult would already be on the EventStream before we assert.
+        var asker = CreateTestProbe();
+        actor.Tell(new DriverHostActor.RouteNodeWrite("eq-x/speed", 0.0), asker.Ref);
+        asker.ExpectMsg<DriverHostActor.NodeWriteResult>(Timeout);
+
+        // Assert no dead-letter carrying an OpcUaProbeResult was published.
+        deadLetterProbe.ExpectNoMsg(TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(500));
+    }
+
+    /// <summary>An <see cref="IDbContextFactory{TContext}"/> whose <c>CreateDbContext</c> always throws,
+    /// driving <see cref="DriverHostActor"/>'s bootstrap into the <c>catch</c> ⇒ <c>Become(Stale)</c>
+    /// path (the same stub used in <c>DriverHostActorWriteRoutingTests.Stale_host_fast_fails_route_node_write</c>).</summary>
+    private sealed class ThrowingDbFactory : IDbContextFactory<OtOpcUaConfigDbContext>
+    {
+        /// <inheritdoc />
+        public OtOpcUaConfigDbContext CreateDbContext() =>
+            throw new InvalidOperationException("config DB unreachable (test stub)");
+    }
+}