Recently rebuilt my Home Assistant set up, running it on VMWare ESXi 6.5 and now for some reason my firewall is showing that my HA is trying to talk to 169.254.60.206:8443 for some reason.
any address starting with 169.254. is an APIPA ‘link local’ address (some devices/machines auto assign themselves these addresses if they need IP and there is no DHCP server on the segment.) Traffic sent to these addresses will not forward outside your local subnet unless you do special configurations.
So, look for a misconfigured device on your local net or an integration that’s lost track of a device.
Given that, it could be:
any of the first 3
skip HACS / Supervisor
possibly Kodi, and Tasmota or TPLink if those are the local versions (I dont use either so someone smarter will need to answer that.