Since the FCC is now taking net neutrality complaints, I filed one about AT&T U-Verse blocking protocol 41. It only took a couple days for AT&T to get back to me and start the process of trying to figure out what is going on but it all came to naught.
I ended up spending a couple of days on the phone with AT&T technical support and we were unable to resolve the issue. They even managed to confuse "port 41" with "protocol 41". Their final position is that there are no official AT&T documents about blocking protocol 41 and there is nothing more they can do to help me. Somehow they considered this congruent with "we are not blocking it because you could always setup a VPN to tunnel protocol 41" and "we have to block protocol 41 because of law enforcement requirements" which are excuses given at various times during our conversations.
Just to confirm my sanity, I verified that it is still being blocked.
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