Symantec Messaging Gateway (SMG) is experiencing delivery issues with Outbound emails, and is using a public DNS server.
Examples might be 8.8.8.8 (provided by Google), 4.2.2.2 (provided by Level 3), 208.67.222.222 or .220 (provided by Cisco/OpenDNS).
Free public DNS hosts are not recommended. Issues with these hosts include:
The recommended order of DNS host configuration is:
For further reading, please review the Administration Guide for Messaging Gateway.
For more information about public DNS service and SLAs, please see each service's respective websites.