Had a real nightmare over the last couple of days getting the custom domain thing working for a blogspot.com site that uses a sub-domain.
Following instructions on How do I use a custom domain name on my blog?, I contacted my host (who will remain nameless - by the by, there should be a follow-up rant post about them, but I won't...) and asked them to set the CNAME record for blog.thewebsiteinquestion.com to ghs.google.com. They did and it worked - for a few hours.
Obviously, the gremlins somehow got in and screwed it up. The hosts were convinced that the CNAME was correct - I was not. Cunningly, when going to blog.thewebsiteinquestion.com I was being directed to the Google search page.
So after a bit of hunting, I found this site http://www.kloth.net/services/dig.php that offers a lookup on the DNS info. Sure enough it politely informed me that the CNAME record was set to blogger.com and not ghs.google.com.
Sure enough, once they changed it - it all worked again and everybody was happy - especially me :)
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