Trivia: Puzzling eBay response (IP 10.2.98.245)

[Kurt Buff]

On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 12:57 PM, Ronald F. Guilmette
<rfg at tristatelogic.com> wrote:
<snip>
> After that, eBay sent me the following message, the last bit of which
> is rather entirely puzzling:
>
> ===========================================================================
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> eBay Change Password Confirmation
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Dear Ron,
>
> This is a courtesy message to let you know that your eBay password has been
> successfully changed. No response is needed.
>
> If you did not make this change, please contact us at
> http://ocs.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?[REDACTED] and sign in as a guest.
>
> The password change request was made from:
> - IP address: 69.62.255.118
> - ISP host: 10.2.98.245
> ===========================================================================
>
> So, I mean, WTF?
>
> 69.62.255.118 is indeed my correct static IP address, and is indeed the
> place from whence I changed my password yesterday.
>
> I really do wonder where the bleep they got 10.2.98.245 from.
>
> Obviously, that's an RFC1918 address.
>
> I do suspect that that IP address has a lot more to do with them, and with
> the geography of their own internal network than it has to do with _my_ ISP.

Rather than incompetence, I'd first suspect Carrier Grade NAT.

Kurt