Paul Philippov

How to resolve Gmail server through Google Public DNS

If your exim suddenly stopped sending mail out through Google Mail smarthost, and you see these errors in mail.log

2012-04-27 17:33:00 1SNslw-0000aW-LK == *******@yahoo.com R=smarthost defer (-36): host lookup for smtp.gmail.com did not complete (DNS timeout?)
2012-04-27 17:33:04 1SNsm0-0000ah-N9 == *******@yandex.ru R=smarthost defer (-36): host lookup for smtp.gmail.com did not complete (DNS timeout?)

add Google Public DNS servers into /etc/resolv.conf before any already existing there

nameserver 8.8.8.8      # Google Public DNS, add this line
nameserver 8.8.4.4      # Google Public DNS, add this line
nameserver 12.34.56.78  # Hosting DNS
nameserver 12.34.56.79  # Hosting DNS

restart mail agent and force another queue run to deliver messages from queue

$ sudo service exim4 restart
$ sudo exim -qff

Published on April 27, 2012 (almost 11 years ago)

Article tags: dns, exim, google

Comments (1)

soccer-michel at hotmail dot com to How to resolve Gmail server through Google Public DNS

Thanks! your post solved my problem with my mail.

almost 7 years ago