I've been puzzled for some time about an odd local IP that seems to be interposed between my Google Fiber box and the Internet. A friend suggested that it could be the fiber jack, but I don't remember that it had its own IP before, and if it did, I would think it would use an address in the same subnet; it almost certainly wouldn't choose one from an entirely different block. Here's sample output of tracert to show what I mean:

PS C:\Users\xxxxxxx> tracert 1.1.1.1
Tracing route to one.one.one.one [1.1.1.1]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  10.4.12.1 <--- subnet switch
  2    12 ms    12 ms    12 ms  192.168.11.1 <--- Fiber box
  3    13 ms    12 ms    13 ms  10.26.2.42 <--- WTF?
  4    13 ms    13 ms    13 ms  23-255-225-20.googlefiber.net [23.255.225.20]
                                . . . .
  8    13 ms     1 ms     1 ms  one.one.one.one [1.1.1.1]

Trace complete.

I don't want to be one of those people who always suspects skullduggery afoot when there's a perfectly plausible explanation, and I've read a lot recently about network vulnerabilities, so maybe I'm seeing spooks where there are none.

If anybody has an idea about this, I'd appreciate any enlightenment you can provide.

Thanks!