AAAA Records

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AAAA is a domain address record, that is in essence the IPv6 address of the server in which the domain name is hosted. The IPv6 system was intended to replace the present IPv4 system in which each IP consists of four sets of decimal digits which range from 1 to 255 e.g. 5.168.208.143. On the other hand, an IPv6 address has eight groups of 4 hexadecimal numbers - which range from 0 to 9 and from A to F. The main reason for this change is the tremendously smaller number of unique IPs which the present system supports as well as the quick increase of gadgets which are connected to the world wide web. A good example of an IPv6 address would be 2101:1f34:32e2:2415:1365:4f2b:2553:1345. If you wish to forward a domain to a machine which uses this type of an address, you have to create an AAAA record for it, not the widespread A record, that is an IPv4 address. The 2 records deliver the very same function, yet different notations are used, in order to separate the two sorts of addresses.

AAAA Records in Cloud Web Hosting

If you want to use a domain name or a subdomain you have within a cloud web hosting account on our end for any third-party service and you have to set up an AAAA record for that, it is not going to take you more than only a few mouse clicks to do that through our powerful, though easy-to-use Hepsia Control Panel. Once you navigate to the DNS Records section and then click the Create a New Record button, a small pop-up will appear. This is the spot where you can create any DNS record, so you simply have to choose the needed domain or subdomain and the type of record via drop-down options menu and input the IPv6 address, that is the actual record. If you happen to have zero experience with such matters, you won't have any problems as Hepsia is quite intuitive and the new AAAA record is going to propagate within the hour, so you can start using your domain/subdomain with the other service provider. If they require it, you are also going to be able to modify the Time To Live (TTL) value for the record, determining how long it will remain active in the global DNS system after you modify it or delete it.