An AAAA record is an IP address within the newly presented IPv6 format and it consists of 8 sets of hexadecimal numbers, as opposed to the IPv4 IPs, which feature four sets of digits between 1 and 255. A good example of an IPv6 address would be 3014:0d43:23a3:2354:1320:8f3b:2635:3254 and with this format the number of IPs which can be created is many times larger than the number of the IPv4 addresses. Each and every domain name has its hosting server Internet protocol address as a record and in essence, this unique record instructs the domain address where the Internet site for it is located. 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 site with one provider and your e-mails with a different one, so if you choose to use this kind of redirection to point a domain name to a server that uses an IPv6 address, you will have to set up an AAAA record for it.

AAAA Records in Web Hosting

If you use a service through a third-party company and you've got to create an AAAA record to forward a domain address or a subdomain to their system, you are going to be able to do that with only a couple of clicks in the Hepsia Control Panel, provided with our web hosting plans. After you log in, you have to visit the DNS Records section in which 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, picking out the type from a drop-down menu, that is to be AAAA in this case, and then typing the value, or the actual IPv6 address, inside a text box. As an additional option you could change the TTL value (Time To Live), which defines how long the record is going to be live after you edit it or delete it in the future. The new AAAA record is going to be live in no more than an hour and will propagate globally an hour or two later, so the hostname for which you have created it will start pointing to the new web server.