Confused with DNS alias

[ramdiamond]

Confused with DNS alias [Solved]

Ok, I have name1.com and name1.ca; I also have ns1, ns2, www etc... at myname.com.

Have Admin level, with 1 user-level account (name1). name1's .com is working great. My DNS provider has ns1/2.myname.com set-up.

I want *.name1.ca to forward to (and change address bar) www.name1.com
I want e-mail sent to [email protected] to be recieved at [email protected]

So in user-level at "Domain Pointer" if I create a DP as an alias, or not; what's the diff?
Should I just do all this at admin-level in DNS management with CNAME records?

httpd doesn't need to server up name1.ca, and (hopefully) I can make an MX record of mail.name1.com for name1.ca.

If I've been unclear, just complain to me a bit; Been on a coffee bing since trying to get the server up XD I think I've slept 10 hours in 3 days 0.o

 

[ramdiamond]

I've done some tests, and ~believe~ this is solved. May change once I start more extensive testing, but at least the DNS part should be finished (Safe for TXT? I still need to do more reading on that one).

as user-level user name1, I created a Domain Pointer from name1.ca->name1.com (without "Create as an Alias"). Then I went to "manage".

name1.ca.	A	<ip of name1.com>
name1.ca.	NS	ns1
name1.ca.	NS	ns2
mail.name1.com.	MX	10
*		CNAME	www.name1.com.
mail		CNAME	mail.name1.com.
name1.ca.	TXT	"v=spf1 a mx ip4:<ip of name1.com> ~all"

email sent to [email protected] get's sent to [email protected]; and *.name1.ca resolves to www.name1.com's ip.