Each device which is connected to the world wide web has a special identifier known as IP (Internet Protocol) address. This includes computer systems, web servers, smartphones, switches, etc. The pool of IP addresses, which was introduced originally, has already been distributed, so the so-called IPv4 IP addresses are gradually getting replaced with IPv6 addresses. Every domain name which opens an internet site comes with an IP record, which is the address of the server where it's hosted. With the IPv4 system, the record is called A and it is comprised of four groups of numbers from 1 to 255 separated by a dot, while within the IPv6 system it's called AAAA and it is comprised of 8 sets of hexadecimal numbers i.e. this kind of records use digits from 0 to 9 and letters from A to F. An illustration of an AAAA record is 2010:0c48:43d3:2142:1012:8c3a:2475:2435 and this format can handle a considerably greater number of IPs in comparison with the IPv4 format.

AAAA Records in Hosting

If you are using a service through a third-party service provider and you have to create an AAAA record to forward a domain or a subdomain to their system, you are going to be able to do that with only a few mouse clicks through the Hepsia CP, included with all of our hosting plans. As soon as you sign in, you need to proceed to the DNS Records section in which you are going to find all the records for every domain name or subdomain hosted inside the account. Creating a new record is as basic as clicking on a button, choosing the type from a drop-down options menu, which will be AAAA in this case, and then entering the value, or the actual IPv6 address, within a text box. As an extra option you could change the TTL value (Time To Live), which defines how long the record is going to be live after you modify it or delete it in the future. The new AAAA record will be functioning in no more than an hour and will propagate worldwide a few hours later, so the hostname for which you have created it will start directing to the new server.