AAAA is a domain name record, that's in essence the IPv6 address of the web server in which the domain name is hosted. The IPv6 system was intended to replace the current IPv4 system in which each and every IP address comprises of 4 groups of decimal numbers which range from 1 to 255 e.g. 5.168.208.143. However, an IPv6 address has eight groups of 4 hexadecimal digits - from 0 to 9 and from A to F. The reason behind this change is the significantly smaller number of unique IPs that the present system supports and the rapid increase of gadgets 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 forward a domain name to a machine that uses such an address, you have to set up an AAAA record for it, not the commonly used A record, that is an IPv4 address. The two records deliver the exact same function, yet different notations are used, to separate the two forms of addresses.

AAAA Records in Cloud Web Hosting

The advanced Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with our cloud web hosting, will allow you to set up a new AAAA record with ease. When you're within the account and you go to the DNS Records section, you'll discover all records you have for any hosted domain name or a subdomain under it. All it takes to create the AAAA record is to click the New Record button, to pick the domain/subdomain in question, choose AAAA after which simply enter or copy and paste the IPv6 address. We've got a step-by-step guide if you've never created records for your domains, but it is unlikely that you will need it as Hepsia is much simpler to employ compared with other Control Panels on the market. Within an hour your new record shall be working and your domain address shall start resolving to the servers of the other service provider. Additionally, there is an option to edit the TTL value, which shows how long this record will be working if you update it, from the standard 3600 seconds to any value which the other provider may require.