Hello
Firstly, apologies if this is the wrong section in which to post this request.
By complete coincidence, while looking at established connections on my FW I noticed that my server has an established outgoing connection to an Amazon EC server on port 8883 (outgoing). I traced the source of the connection to my HASS docker container. It took me ages but eventually I confirmed it by stopping the container and the connection dropped and upon restarting the container it was re-established.
The question is: How can I identify what is connecting to mqtt outside my network from within HASS? (I run my own MQTT server locally which HASS connects to without any issues)
I would like to know this also, in fact I would prefer to have some kind of a hardare sniffer between my ONT and my router to verify that there are no unknown connections (such as from my TP-Link router to the CCP as an example etc.). Any networking experts in this forum that can help?
The MQTT server at Amazon EC might be a cloud service for some of your devices.
The vendor just used the MQTT protocol to built their cloud service, but will probably not send them directly to you.