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    • DigiguyD
      Digiguy @johnpoz
      last edited by Digiguy

      @johnpoz - Ahhhh! good information! Will start with changing it to home.arpa as per recommendation.

      As always.. learning with each step along the way. Greatly appreciate the help!

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      • johnpozJ
        johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator @Digiguy
        last edited by johnpoz

        @Digiguy I finally finished my migration to home.arpa, I was using local.lan for many years.. Pfsense now defaults to using home.arpa

        Not really wrong or right here, if your happy with using .mylocal its not particularly "wrong" - but rfc out that recommends for local use, home.arpa is more appropriate to use..

        Lots of use of .local back in the day before it was ruined by apple using it for their mdns domain ;) You can for sure still use it, but since its really associated now with mdns it can be problematic.

        I don't think you would run into such issues with using .mylocal - other than things alerting you, hey that tld is odd ;) like your seeing.. i would hope they wouldn't alert on home.arpa since this is the new recommended domain to use locally.

        https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8375.html
        Special-Use Domain 'home.arpa.'

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        • NogBadTheBadN
          NogBadTheBad @Digiguy
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          @Digiguy said in TLS Suspicious Extension:

          @johnpoz Thanks i will read to the best of my ability...lol I did look at the Alert and it does seem harmless as you stated. Correct me if I am wrong
          2a475a04-eea3-4927-b136-98e775520a22-image.png

          IIRC doesn’t ntopng use port 3000, is that alert a false positive 😀

          Andy

          1 x Netgate SG-4860 - 3 x Linksys LGS308P - 1 x Aruba InstantOn AP22

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          • johnpozJ
            johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator @NogBadTheBad
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            @NogBadTheBad hahahah - yeah that is funny.. your right ntop uses 3000..

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            • Bob.DigB
              Bob.Dig LAYER 8 @johnpoz
              last edited by Bob.Dig

              @johnpoz said in TLS Suspicious Extension:

              @Digiguy I finally finished my migration to home.arpa, I was using local.lan for many years.. Pfsense now defaults to using home.arpa

              Isn't internal the new hotness?

              The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) has made a provisional determination that “.INTERNAL” should be reserved for private-use and internal network applications.

              https://www.icann.org/en/public-comment/proceeding/proposed-top-level-domain-string-for-private-use-24-01-2024

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              • johnpozJ
                johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator @Bob.Dig
                last edited by johnpoz

                @Bob-Dig yeah which I mentioned.. Sure you could prob be the first to jump on .internal if you want to start using it.. But will ntop think that is suspicious?

                You would hope since home.arpa has been a thing for a while, that it wouldn't be considered suspicious ;)

                But looks like that is traffic to ntop own web gui, is it? that 172.16.0.1 would be consistent with typical router IP (pfsense) and ntop does default to using port 3000 ;)

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                • DigiguyD
                  Digiguy @NogBadTheBad
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                  @NogBadTheBad and @johnpoz , I had to laugh when I opened ntopng and noticed port in browser.. you right... will keep on trucking! I hate just setting and forgetting so I may ask some dumb questions but because you guys are so responsive unlike several other forums I have asked question's in I end up learning something each time! Greatly appreciate it!

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                  • johnpozJ
                    johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator @Digiguy
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                    @Digiguy yeah that ntop reports traffic to itself as suspicious is freaking hilarious ;)

                    But that just goes to show my point about having to know your own networks traffic to know if something is legit or not or warrants a "alert/warning"

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                      pulsartiger @johnpoz
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                      @johnpoz

                      I see comment about changing the local domain name to home.arpa. I setup my pfsense router about a year ago and used something not in the recommended list. I just setup ntopng and I am getting a lot of alerts, maybe its related to my local domain name. I was curious, if I change this domain name in System -> General Setup -> Domain, is there anywhere else that I need to update this name? Could changing this name cause any issues with packages or rules that I have setup?

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                      • johnpozJ
                        johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator @pulsartiger
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                        @pulsartiger shouldn't I changed mine from local.lan to home.arpa. Only other places I recall changing it was in host overrides I had setup for stuff on my network, and certs that I had created.

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