AAAA Records

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AAAA is a domain address record, that's in essence the IPv6 address of the web server in which the domain name is hosted. The IPv6 system was designed to replace the present IPv4 system where each IP address comprises of four groups of decimal digits between 1 to 255 e.g. 5.168.208.143. In comparison, an IPv6 address includes 8 groups of four hexadecimal numbers - ranging from 0 to 9 and from A to F. The main reason for this transformation is the considerably smaller selection of unique IPs that the present system supports and the speedy increase of gadgets that are connected to the Internet. An illustration of an IPv6 address would be 2101:1f34:32e2:2415:1365:4f2b:2553:1345. If you'd like to forward a domain address to a web server that uses this kind of an address, you have to create an AAAA record for it, not the widely used A record, which is an IPv4 address. Both records deliver the very same function, yet different notations are used, so as to separate the two sorts of addresses.

: AAAA Records in Cloud Hosting

The advanced Hepsia website hosting CP, included with our cloud hosting, will enable you to set up a new AAAA record effortlessly. When you're in the account and you navigate to the DNS Records section, you'll discover all records that you have for any hosted domain or a subdomain under it. All it takes to set up the AAAA record is to click on the New Record button, to choose the domain/subdomain in question, choose AAAA after which simply type in or copy and paste the IPv6 address. We've got a step-by-step guide if you've never created records for your domain names, but it's less likely that you will need it as Hepsia is much simpler to work with compared with other Control Panels on the market. Within an hour your new record will be active and your domain will start resolving to the servers of the other provider. Additionally, there is an option to change the TTL value, which outlines how long this record is going to be functioning if you modify it, from the default 3600 seconds to any value that the other provider may require.