FYI: Not working with AT&T U-Verse

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Similar setup here. BGW-210 and Orbi combo, with IP Passthrough enabled. Switched to 1.1.1.1 and 1.0.0.1 on April 1st and everything worked great. Go out of town on business this week and get a panicked call from my wife on April 11th stating that nothing works anymore, which is always fun. Resetting the DNS to ATT default or Google’s servers resolves the issue. Neither 1.1.1.1 or 1.0.0.1 work for me. Even enabling the GW’s builtin WiFi (which I don’t normally use) and connecting directly to the GW, I get the following:

traceroute 1.1.1.1
traceroute to 1.1.1.1 (1.1.1.1), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets
 1  * * *
traceroute 1.0.0.1
traceroute to 1.0.0.1 (1.0.0.1), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets
 1  dsldevice (192.168.4.254)  3.672 ms  2.419 ms  2.427 ms
 2  dsldevice (192.168.4.254)  3009.408 ms !H  3050.200 ms !H  3009.146 ms !H
traceroute 1dot1dot1dot1.Cloudflare-dns.com
traceroute: Warning: 1dot1dot1dot1.Cloudflare-dns.com has multiple addresses; using 1.0.0.1
traceroute to 1dot1dot1dot1.Cloudflare-dns.com (1.0.0.1), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets
 1  dsldevice.attlocal.net (192.168.4.254)  6.875 ms  3.404 ms  3.862 ms
 2  dsldevice.attlocal.net (192.168.4.254)  3063.349 ms !H  3072.056 ms !H  3071.338 ms !H
traceroute 1dot0dot0dot1.Cloudflare-dns.com
traceroute: Warning: 1dot0dot0dot1.Cloudflare-dns.com has multiple addresses; using 104.16.112.25
traceroute to 1dot0dot0dot1.Cloudflare-dns.com (104.16.112.25), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets
 1  dsldevice.attlocal.net (192.168.4.254)  2.618 ms *  2.707 ms
 2  107-197-152-1.lightspeed.rlghnc.sbcglobal.net (107.197.152.1)  72.910 ms  3.666 ms  3.995 ms
 3  99.173.76.196 (99.173.76.196)  3.571 ms  3.217 ms  3.215 ms
 4  99.134.77.82 (99.134.77.82)  9.355 ms  4.015 ms  3.909 ms
 5  99.134.77.45 (99.134.77.45)  3.930 ms  3.974 ms  4.132 ms
 6  12.83.103.13 (12.83.103.13)  6.620 ms
    12.83.103.33 (12.83.103.33)  8.154 ms  7.055 ms
 7  12.123.138.178 (12.123.138.178)  15.649 ms  15.795 ms  18.464 ms
 8  12.122.2.190 (12.122.2.190)  15.975 ms  13.262 ms  13.317 ms
 9  12.122.113.37 (12.122.113.37)  16.203 ms  14.915 ms  15.197 ms
10  192.205.37.54 (192.205.37.54)  14.761 ms  13.802 ms  14.614 ms
11  ae-0.Cloudflare.asbnva02.us.bb.gin.ntt.net (131.103.117.34)  15.730 ms  13.323 ms  13.809 ms
12  104.16.112.25 (104.16.112.25)  13.524 ms  13.282 ms  13.014 ms
traceroute 8.8.8.8
traceroute to 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets
 1  dsldevice (192.168.4.254)  4.902 ms  2.338 ms  2.623 ms
 2  107-197-152-1.lightspeed.rlghnc.sbcglobal.net (107.197.152.1)  5.353 ms  4.736 ms  3.982 ms
 3  99.173.76.196 (99.173.76.196)  3.814 ms  4.832 ms  4.554 ms
 4  99.134.77.82 (99.134.77.82)  4.217 ms  5.953 ms  3.700 ms
 5  99.134.77.45 (99.134.77.45)  4.149 ms  5.191 ms  3.523 ms
 6  12.83.103.13 (12.83.103.13)  4.841 ms
    12.83.103.33 (12.83.103.33)  12.938 ms  8.134 ms
 7  12.123.138.178 (12.123.138.178)  15.739 ms  12.834 ms  16.081 ms
 8  cr1.attga.ip.att.net (12.122.2.161)  16.021 ms  16.404 ms  15.677 ms
 9  gar1.nsvtn.ip.att.net (12.122.96.85)  12.487 ms  12.310 ms  14.371 ms
10  12.255.10.4 (12.255.10.4)  12.645 ms  13.715 ms
    12.255.10.12 (12.255.10.12)  12.988 ms
11  * * *
12  209.85.254.81 (209.85.254.81)  13.815 ms
    64.233.174.184 (64.233.174.184)  16.235 ms
    216.239.54.219 (216.239.54.219)  13.544 ms
13  google-public-dns-a.google.com (8.8.8.8)  12.472 ms
    216.239.54.227 (216.239.54.227)  12.582 ms
    216.239.54.131 (216.239.54.131)  13.394 ms

So I can’t use these DNS’ either via configuration to the Orbi or directly on the device. It does indeed appear that ATT is purposefully blocking. 1.0.0.1 allows some services to work, but not all, so I either have to rely on a secondary DNS server or just remove altogether. This is the kind of behavior that will force me to switch services. Thankfully I live in an area where I have multiple options for Gigabit internet.