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Custom Domains, Google Apps, FeedBurner, and An Unusual "404 Not Found"

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Occasionally, the ubiquity of the custom domain curse
Server Not Found

Error 404
surprises even me. In this case, as in many others, the domain is properly setup.

mydomain.com.            3600    IN      A       216.239.32.21
mydomain.com.            3600    IN      A       216.239.34.21
mydomain.com.            3600    IN      A       216.239.36.21
mydomain.com.            3600    IN      A       216.239.38.21
www.mydomain.com.      3600    IN      CNAME   ghs.google.com.
---
ghs.google.com.         282206  IN      CNAME   ghs.l.google.com.
ghs.l.google.com.       300     IN      A       74.125.43.121

An an (abbreviated) HTTP trace gives intriguing details.

Sending request:

GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: www.mydomain.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:
1.9.0.6) Gecko/2009011913 Firefox/3.0.6
Connection: close

• Finding host IP address...
• Host IP address = 209.85.171.121
• Finding TCP protocol...
• Binding to local socket...
• Connecting to host...
• Sending request...
• Waiting for response...
Receiving Header:
HTTP/1.1·302·Moved·Temporarily(CR)(LF)
Location:·http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/home(CR)(LF)

Even FeedBurner, it appears, is involved in the Google Apps quagmire.

Fortunately, there's a possibility to sort this. We may be able to use the FeedBurner MyBrand wizard to remove the domain mappings.
  1. Use the FeedBurner MyBrand wizard, and define "feeds.mydomain.com" in Step 1 of MyBrand.
  2. Add a new virtual host to your domain, defining the target URL, as specified in Step 2 of MyBrand.
    feeds.mydomain.com.      3600    IN      CNAME   1e0jtkx.feedproxy.ghs.google.com.
  3. Activate the MyBrand service.
  4. Deactivate the MyBrand service.


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