All DNS traffic completely suspended for 60 seconds randomly throughout the day

Hi, this sounds very similar to an issue that MANY other XR1000 users were experiencing 6-12 months ago (and earlier as well).  The symtom was that at several random times throughout the day, ALL network traffic would completely stop for about 60 seconds.  Then it would mysteriously work fine again.  What we all came to deduce was happening through various troubleshooting was that the XR1000 Pro Gaming Routers were automatically set to receive automatic firmware updates and they were timing out whenever they were trying to check/perform these updates.

The reason that I'm here replying now is because I'm having this exact same problem AGAIN!!!!!

I'm not sure if Netgear is aware of this issue (they certainly should be by the many users that are being affected and the numerous posts in various community support forums about it), but they really need to figure this out and start supporting their customers and products!