diff --git a/proxies/live/apiproxy/targets/app-response-target.xml b/proxies/live/apiproxy/targets/app-response-target.xml
index c4e4f442..099115bb 100644
--- a/proxies/live/apiproxy/targets/app-response-target.xml
+++ b/proxies/live/apiproxy/targets/app-response-target.xml
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
             <Enabled>true</Enabled>
         </SSLInfo>
         <LoadBalancer>
-            <Server name="{{ APP_RESPONSE_TARGET_SERVER | default('app-response-target') }}"/>
+            <Server name="{{ APP_RESPONSE_TARGET_SERVER | default('app-response-retrieval-target') }}"/>
         </LoadBalancer>
         <Path>{requestpath}</Path>
         <Properties>
diff --git a/tests/lib/constants/constants.py b/tests/lib/constants/constants.py
index 164bede4..92b9d99a 100644
--- a/tests/lib/constants/constants.py
+++ b/tests/lib/constants/constants.py
@@ -9,12 +9,13 @@
     "/v1/messages",
     "/v1/api/send",
     "/v1/messages/1234",
-    # ref has no app-response backend; the endpoint is deliberately disabled there
     pytest.param(
         "/v1/message-responses/11111111-1111-4111-8111-111111111111",
         marks=pytest.mark.skipif(
-            os.environ.get("API_ENVIRONMENT") == "ref",
-            reason="message-responses endpoint is not available in ref"
+            os.environ.get("API_ENVIRONMENT") not in (
+                "internal-dev", "internal-dev-sandbox"
+            ),
+            reason="message-responses checks run only in internal dev"
         ),
     ),
 ]