744421 - apps-preview.mozilla.org should redirect to marketplace, currently no DNS entry

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Cloud Services :: Operations: Marketplace, task)

Description

[Kev Needham [:kev]]

There's a number of blog posts and MDN documents that reference the developer preview for apps hostname (apps-preview.mozilla.org), which no longer appears to resolve. Could we repopulate the A record for apps-preview.mozilla.org and add a redirect to marketplace on port 80 and 443 for it? It'll make for a better experience than what people trying to click-thru older links right now.

[kneedham@c2 ~]$ dig apps-preview.mozilla.org A

; <<>> DiG 9.3.6-P1-RedHat-9.3.6-16.P1.el5_7.1 <<>> apps-preview.mozilla.org A
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 1089
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;apps-preview.mozilla.org.	IN	A

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
mozilla.org.		600	IN	SOA	ns.mozilla.org. sysadmins.mozilla.org. 2012041104 10800 3600 604800 1800

;; Query time: 121 msec
;; SERVER: 69.174.254.73#53(69.174.254.73)
;; WHEN: Wed Apr 11 10:24:19 2012
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 91

Comment 1

[Jason Thomas [:jason]]

Added apps-preview.mozilla.org to DNS. The redirect is handled by a traffic script in Zeus.

Comment 2

[Kev Needham [:kev]]

Thanks for the quick turnaround, Jason!