AAAA Records

What is an AAAA resource record? What role do AAAA records serve? Do you have to add one to your website?

An AAAA record is an IP within the newly launched IPv6 format and it is made up of 8 different sets of hexadecimal numbers, unlike the IPv4 IPs, which feature four sets of numbers in between 1 and 255. A good example of an IPv6 address is 3014:0d43:23a3:2354:1320:8f3b:2635:3254 and in this format the number of IPs that can be created is many times greater than the number of the IPv4 addresses. Every single domain name has its website hosting server IP address as a record and in essence, that record informs the domain address where the site for it is. Depending on the system the provider employs, the record is going to be called A (IPv4) or AAAA (IPv6). Changing this record enables you to host your website with one provider and your e-mails with a different one, so if you decide to use this kind of redirection to forward a domain to a server that uses an IPv6 address, you will need to create an AAAA record for it.

: AAAA Records in Cloud Hosting

If you want to use a domain or a subdomain that you have within a cloud hosting account on our end for any third-party service and you have to create an AAAA record for that, it won't take you more than a few clicks to do this via our effective, albeit easy-to-use Hepsia Control Panel. When you navigate to the DNS Records section and then click the Create a New Record button, a small pop-up will show up. This is the spot where you can create any DNS record, so you only have to select the needed domain address or subdomain and the type of record through drop-down menus and type in the IPv6 address, that is the actual record. Just in case you have no experience with such matters, you will not have any troubles as Hepsia is very intuitive and the new AAAA record is going to propagate within the hour, to enable you to start using your domain/subdomain with the other service provider. In case they demand it, you're also going to be able to modify the Time To Live (TTL) value for the record, determining how long it'll remain active in the global DNS system after you edit it or delete it.