Where do peers come from in a bittorrent client?

Question

P2P

I noticed an interesting thing in my torrent client. There is a torrent from a local tracker. Public torrent. I downloaded - I distribute.
All additional protocols like DHT and PEX are disabled in my client. Those. as a source of peers, only the tracker is used. The tracker is closed from the outside, i.e. there can be no outside peers on it.
And with all this, in my list of peers downloading from me, on some distributions, these same left-wing peers (from banana republics) appear. Question: from where? Obviously from other peers, but since DHT and PEX are disabled, how?
I use qBittorrent, but this happens with uTorrent and probably everyone else.

Answer 1

You have DHT disabled, but other clients of the internal tracker who know about your client may not have DHT disabled. That's how it leaks out.

Answer 2

Make sure that only your local tracker is registered in the distribution properties. Maybe it's just the MOP.

Answer 3

maybe these are not feasts from the banana republic, but a crooked geolocation?