An AAAA record is an IP address in the freshly introduced IPv6 format and it is made up of 8 different groups of hexadecimal numbers, in contrast to the IPv4 IPs, which feature four groups of numbers 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 has its website hosting server IP address as a record and in essence, this unique record informs the domain where the Internet site for it can be found. 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 choose to use this type of redirection to point a domain to a server that uses an IPv6 address, you'll have to set up an AAAA record for it.
AAAA Records in Cloud Website Hosting
If you are using a service with a third-party service provider and you have to set up an AAAA record to point a domain or a subdomain to their system, you're going to be able to do that with only a few clicks in the Hepsia CP, supplied with all of our cloud website hosting solutions. Once you sign in, you need to proceed to the DNS Records section where you will find all the records for any domain name or subdomain hosted in the account. Creating a new record is as simple as clicking on a button, selecting the type from a drop-down options menu, that is to be AAAA in this case, and then inserting the value, or the actual IPv6 address, inside a text box. As an added option you can modify the TTL value (Time To Live), which determines how long the record is going to be functioning after you change it or erase it in the future. The new AAAA record will be active in no more than an hour and will propagate worldwide a couple of hours later, so the hostname for which you have created it will start directing to the new web server.