No, at least not necessarily, it was most likely a miss configuration of a torrent client that caused the loop back address to end up in a DHT. If you look at

No, at least not necessarily, it was most likely a miss configuration of a torrent client that caused the loop back address to end up in a DHT. If you look at DHTs quite often you’ll see local LAN IP addresses in them, so the loopback ending up there isn’t particularly surprising. Edit: nvm this isn’t a torrent, looks like the XML / config file of pirated TV streams like the ones you get on Kodi, so that was just a miss configuration on the team that maintains the stream pack.