title: DNS records cannot be found for SSL certificate using custom domain on GAE
body: <p>I am trying to add a custom domain to GAE but Google is struggling to issue an SSL certificate for the naked domain, as it says the DNS records could not be found.</p>
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  <p>I have tried to map both the naked domain and the www subdomain. When I entered these in the GAE custom domain section I was given 4xA records (above), 4xAAAA records (above), and 1x CNAME record for the www subdomain.</p>
  <p>I've entered all of these records at GoDaddy.</p>
  <p>The www subdomain in GAE was able to verify the DNS records relatively promptly but the naked domain has not been able to for 4/5 days now.</p>
  <p>When I use a DNS lookup tool to check the A records, for the naked domain I see:</p>
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  <p>...and the four records provided by GAE are there (the other two can't be deleted or edited at GoDaddy). So why is GAE saying the DNS records cannot be found?</p>
  <p>And when I use the same tool to lookup the www subdomain I see:</p>
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  <p>...which I guess must be correct as the certificate has issue without any problems.</p>
  <p>If I remove the naked domain from GAE custom domain mapping then users just see a Google generated 404 error message saying the URL was not found on their servers.</p>
  <p>Without the SSL, I can navigate to the naked domain using HTTP and I get redirected to the www subdomain (not sure if this is GoDaddy domain forwarding or Django PREPEND_WWW in action - both are setup). But if I try HTTPS on the naked domain, I get a page cannot be displayed due to failing to establish a secure connection, therefore I really need to get to the bottom of the SSL issuing problem.</p>
  <p>I am not sure where I am going wrong and would appreciate some suggestions.</p>