AAAA Records

Understand what an AAAA record is really, precisely when it’s employed and if you ought to put in place one for your domain name.

An AAAA record is an Internet protocol address in the newly introduced IPv6 format and it is comprised of 8 sets of hexadecimal numbers, in contrast to the IPv4 IPs, which include 4 sets of numbers between 1 and 255. An illustration of an IPv6 address would be 3014:0d43:23a3:2354:1320:8f3b:2635:3254 and in this format the sheer number of IPs which can be created is many times higher than the number of the IPv4 addresses. Each and every domain name has its website hosting server IP address as a record and in essence, this unique record instructs the domain name where the Internet site for it is. Depending on the system that the provider employs, the record will be called A (IPv4) or AAAA (IPv6). Changing this record enables you to host your Internet site with one provider and your e-mails with another, so if you decide to use this type of redirection to forward a domain to a server that uses an IPv6 address, you will have to set up an AAAA record for it.

AAAA Records in Website Hosting

If you'd like to use a domain name or a subdomain you have within a website 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 clicks to do that using our effective, though easy-to-use Hepsia Control Panel. Once you visit the DNS Records section and click on the Create a New Record button, a small pop-up will show up. This is the place where you can set up any DNS record, so you just have to select the needed domain name or subdomain and the type of record from drop-down navigation and type in the IPv6 address, that’s the actual record. Even if you have no experience with such matters, you won't have any problems as Hepsia is incredibly intuitive and your new AAAA record will propagate within the hour, so you can start using your domain/subdomain with the other company. If they demand it, you're also going to be able to change the Time To Live (TTL) value for the record, defining how long it'll stay active in the global DNS system after you modify it or remove it.