AAAA Records

What precisely is an AAAA resource record? What function do AAAA records serve? Do you need to include one to your website?

An AAAA record is an IP within the newly presented IPv6 format and it comprises of 8 different sets of hexadecimal digits, as opposed to the IPv4 IPs, that include 4 sets of digits between 1 and 255. A good example of an IPv6 address is 3014:0d43:23a3:2354:1320:8f3b:2635:3254 and with this format the number of IPs that may be created is many times larger than the number of the IPv4 addresses. Every single domain has its website hosting server IP as a record and in essence, this record informs the domain name where the Internet site for it is located. Depending on the system the company employs, the record will be called A (IPv4) or AAAA (IPv6). Changing this record enables you to host your website with one provider and your emails with another, so if you choose to use this kind of redirection to forward a domain address to a server that uses an IPv6 address, you will need to set up an AAAA record for it.

AAAA Records in Shared Web Hosting

If you use a service with a third-party company and you've got to set up an AAAA record to forward a domain or a subdomain to their system, you are going to be able to do that with a few mouse clicks via the Hepsia CP, included with our shared web hosting plans. Once you sign in, you have to proceed to the DNS Records section where you are going to find all records for any domain address or subdomain hosted in the account. Creating a new record is as basic as clicking on a button, selecting the type from a drop-down options menu, that will be AAAA in this case, and then entering the value, or the actual IPv6 address, inside a text box. As an extra option you can change the TTL value (Time To Live), which outlines how long the record is going to be active after you edit it or delete it in the future. The new AAAA record is going to be active in no more than 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.