Redirection tools

[cjt]

Hi all

Can someone please help me make sense of how to use redirection tools. I'm at the moment trying to use the Wordpress redirection tool with an Clickbank affiliate link. This is part of a 'how to' I'm using:

1. In the “Source URL” textbox add your masked URL. This page doesn’t have to be a valid page, for example, I added Affiliate Redirector which does not exist in reality. In the “Target URL”, add your affiliate link and leave the other options as default. Click the “Add Redirection” button to save the changes.

I just made up a URL for example: Welcome to Old Fred .com redirecting to http:...7tgs3h77*%^$&-qvwbyd08dr.hop.clickbank.net/

2. Now place this masked URL in any of your blog posts and the reader will be directed accordingly. I normally do one more step when I’m linking using masked URLs, I add the rel=”nofollow” tag which means that search engines do not follow this link while indexing my site. This is an often ignored but important step.

I then went in to my links to edit them substituted the Clickbank URL with the Redirected URL and end with:

Server not found
Firefox can't find the server at oldfred.

To me that says that the redirection isn't happening?

Could someone enlighten me while have still got some fingernails left.

Kind Regards
CJT