People sometimes route stuff onto the loopback device in addition to the the usual 127.0.0.0/8 traffic so that it ends up on local sockets.
Thanks for the reply, but I don't fully understand the implications of this, nor how sd-network is related - I'm quite ignorant when it comes to networking :/
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