AAAA Records

What's an AAAA resource record? What role do AAAA records have? Do you have to add one to your site?

An AAAA record is an IP address in the recently introduced IPv6 format and it consists of eight different sets of hexadecimal digits, unlike the IPv4 IPs, which include 4 sets of digits in between 1 and 255. An illustration of an IPv6 address is 3014:0d43:23a3:2354:1320:8f3b:2635:3254 and in this format the number of IPs which can be created is many times bigger than the number of the IPv4 addresses. Each and every domain name has its website hosting server Internet protocol address as a record and in essence, that record tells the domain name where the site for it is located. Depending on the system that the provider uses, the record is going to be called A (IPv4) or AAAA (IPv6). Changing this record permits you to host your Internet site with one company and your email messages with a different one, so if you choose to use this kind of redirection to point a domain to a server that uses an IPv6 address, you'll have to create an AAAA record for it.

AAAA Records in Hosting

If you'd like to use a domain address or a subdomain which you have inside a hosting account on our end for any third-party service and you ought to create an AAAA record for that, it will not take you more than just a few clicks to do this by using our effective, albeit easy-to-use Hepsia Control Panel. Once you visit the DNS Records section and click on the Create a New Record button, a little pop-up will appear. This is the area where you can set up any DNS record, so you only have to select the needed domain address or subdomain and the type of record via drop-down navigation and enter the IPv6 address, that’s the actual record. If you happen to have zero experience with such matters, you won't have any issues as Hepsia is quite intuitive and the new AAAA record will propagate within the hour, so you can start using your domain/subdomain with the other provider. In case they demand it, you're also going to be able to edit the Time To Live (TTL) value for the record, determining how long it will stay active in the global DNS system after you edit it or erase it.