AAAA Records

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AAAA is a domain name record, that is essentially the IPv6 address of the web server where the domain name is hosted. The IPv6 system was intended to replace the existing IPv4 system where each IP address is comprised of four sets of decimal numbers between 1 to 255 e.g. 5.168.208.143. On the other hand, an IPv6 address has 8 sets of 4 hexadecimal digits - which range from 0 to 9 and from A to F. The main reason for this change is the tremendously smaller selection of unique IPs that the existing system supports and also the fast increase of gadgets that are connected to the Internet. An example of an IPv6 address would be 2101:1f34:32e2:2415:1365:4f2b:2553:1345. If you need to forward a domain address to a machine which uses this type of an address, you have to set up an AAAA record for it, not the widely used A record, which is an IPv4 address. The two records have the exact same function, but different notations are used, to differentiate the two types of addresses.

AAAA Records in Shared Hosting

If you use a service through a third-party service provider and you've got to set up an AAAA record to point a domain name or a subdomain to their system, you are going to be able to do that with a couple of mouse clicks within the Hepsia Control Panel, included with our shared hosting packages. As soon as you sign in, you will need to navigate to the DNS Records section where you will find all records for every domain name or subdomain hosted inside the account. Creating a new record is as simple as clicking on a button, picking the type from a drop-down menu, which will be AAAA in this case, and then inserting the value, or the actual IPv6 address, in a text box. As an additional option you are able to change the TTL value (Time To Live), which specifies how long the record will be functioning after you change it or delete it in the future. The new AAAA record will be operating in just an hour and will propagate worldwide an hour or two later, so the hostname for which you have created it will start forwarding to the new server.