HACKER Q&A
📣 pmlnr

Is there a Gmail DNS resolver outage happening?


I got pinged on WhatsApp, that they can't send me emails - this is to my own server that has been happily ticking for quite a while. Tested sending from outlook and gmail - outlook worked, gmail failed with:

    DNS Error: DNS type 'mx' lookup of [domain] responded with code NXDOMAIN Domain name not found: [domain] Learn more at https://support.google.com/mail/?p=BadRcptDomain
Anyone seen this before or experiencing it currently?

  👤 LinuxBender Accepted Answer ✓
This this close to what you are seeing?

    dig +short -t mx gmail.com | sort -n
    5 gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com.
    10 alt1.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com.
    20 alt2.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com.
    30 alt3.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com.
    40 alt4.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com.
👤 proactivesvcs
I've had some clients contact me because they can't email GMail accounts. They're getting bounces claiming DKIM failures when DKIM is working fine; could be related.