AAAA Records

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AAAA is a domain name record, which is essentially the IPv6 address of the server where the domain name is hosted. The IPv6 system was designed to replace the present IPv4 system where every single Internet protocol address comprises of 4 sets of decimal digits between 1 to 255 e.g. 5.168.208.143. In contrast, an IPv6 address has 8 groups of 4 hexadecimal digits - from 0 to 9 and from A to F. The reason for this transformation is the significantly smaller range of unique IPs the current system supports and the quick increase of products which are connected to the Internet. An illustration of an IPv6 address would be 2101:1f34:32e2:2415:1365:4f2b:2553:1345. If you'd like to point a domain address to a machine that uses this kind of an address, you'll have to set up an AAAA record for it, and not the commonly used A record, that is an IPv4 address. The 2 records provide the same exact function, yet different notations are used, to identify the two types of addresses.

AAAA Records in Website Hosting

The cutting-edge Hepsia web hosting CP, bundled with our website hosting, will allow you to set up a new AAAA record without difficulty. Once you are in the account and you navigate to the DNS Records section, you'll discover all records that you have for every hosted domain or a subdomain under it. All it takes to create the AAAA record is to click the New Record button, to select the domain/subdomain in question, choose AAAA then simply enter or copy and paste the IPv6 address. We've got a step-by-step guide if you have never created records for your domains, but it's unlikely that you will need it as Hepsia is much simpler to make use of in comparison with other Control Panels on the market. Within an hour your new record is going to be functioning and your domain name shall start resolving to the servers of the other company. There is also an option to edit the TTL value, which determines how long this record is going to be working if you edit it, from the default 3600 seconds to any value which the other service provider may require.