Each device that's connected to the Internet has a special identifier called IP (Internet Protocol) address. This includes PCs, web servers, smart phones, switches, etcetera. The pool of IPs, that was introduced at first, has already been distributed, hence the so-called IPv4 IP addresses are progressively getting replaced with IPv6 addresses. Every domain name which opens an internet site comes with an IP record, that is the address of the server where it is hosted. When using the IPv4 system, the record is called A and it is made up of four groups of numbers from 1 to 255 divided by a dot, while within the IPv6 system it is called AAAA and it is comprised of 8 groups of hexadecimal numbers i.e. this type of records use numbers from 0 to 9 and letters from A to F. An example of an AAAA record is 2010:0c48:43d3:2142:1012:8c3a:2475:2435 and this format supports a considerably larger number of IPs in comparison with the IPv4 format.

AAAA Records in Hosting

If you use a service through a third-party company and you need to create an AAAA record to direct a domain name or a subdomain to their system, you're going to be able to do that with a few mouse clicks in the Hepsia Control Panel, included with all our hosting solutions. After you sign in, you will need to proceed to the DNS Records section where you are going to find all the records for every domain or subdomain hosted within the account. Setting up a new record is as simple as clicking on a button, choosing the type from a drop-down menu, that is to be AAAA in this case, and then inputting the value, or the actual IPv6 address, inside a text box. As an extra option you can change the TTL value (Time To Live), that outlines how long the record will be live after you change it or erase it in the future. The new AAAA record is going to be live in only an hour and will propagate around the world a few hours later, so the hostname for which you have created it will start redirecting to the new web server.