AAAA Records

AAAA Records - learn more details about them and when should you use one.

AAAA is a domain record, that is essentially the IPv6 address of the server in which the domain is hosted. The IPv6 system was introduced to replace the current IPv4 system where every single IP is comprised of 4 groups of decimal numbers ranging from 1 to 255 e.g. 5.168.208.143. In comparison, an IPv6 address features 8 groups of four hexadecimal digits - ranging from 0 to 9 and from A to F. The cause of this transformation is the significantly smaller range of unique IPs which the current system supports as well as the speedy increase of products that are connected to the world wide web. An illustration of an IPv6 address would be 2101:1f34:32e2:2415:1365:4f2b:2553:1345. If you'd like to direct a domain address to a server which uses such an address, you will need to create an AAAA record for it, not the widely used A record, that is an IPv4 address. The 2 records have the exact same function, but different notations are used, to separate the two forms of addresses.

: AAAA Records in Website Hosting

If you are using a service through a third-party provider and you've got to create an AAAA record to forward a domain name or a subdomain to their system, you're going to be able to do that with just a couple of mouse clicks via the Hepsia CP, which comes with all our website hosting solutions. Once you sign in, you will need to go to the DNS Records section in which you are going to find all records for any domain address or subdomain hosted in the account. Creating a new record is as easy as clicking on a button, picking the type from a drop-down options menu, that is to be AAAA in this case, and then entering the value, or the actual IPv6 address, inside a text box. As an additional option you could edit the TTL value (Time To Live), which outlines how long the record is going to be active after you edit it or remove it in the future. The new AAAA record is going to be active in just an hour and will propagate around the world two or three hours later, so the hostname for which you have created it will start redirecting to the new web server.