AAAA Records

Find out just what an AAAA record really is, exactly when it’s utilized and whether you should create one for your domain name.

AAAA is a domain record, that is basically the IPv6 address of the server where the domain name is hosted. The IPv6 system was designed to replace the existing IPv4 system where each IP address is made up of four groups of decimal digits ranging from 1 to 255 e.g. 5.168.208.143. On the other hand, an IPv6 address has 8 groups of 4 hexadecimal digits - which range from 0 to 9 and from A to F. The reason behind this transformation is the considerably smaller number of unique IPs which the present system supports and also the rapid increase of devices that are connected to the world wide web. An illustration of an IPv6 address would be 2101:1f34:32e2:2415:1365:4f2b:2553:1345. If you need to direct a domain address to a web server which uses this sort of an address, you will have to set up an AAAA record for it, not the commonly used A record, that is an IPv4 address. The two records provide the very same function, yet different notations are used, in order to differentiate the two types of addresses.

: AAAA Records in Web Hosting

The cutting-edge Hepsia hosting CP, bundled with our web hosting, will permit you to set up a new AAAA record easily. Once you are in the account and you go to the DNS Records section, you will find all records you have for every hosted domain name or a subdomain under it. All it takes to set up the AAAA record is to click on the New Record button, to pick the domain/subdomain in question, choose AAAA after which simply type or copy and paste the IPv6 address. We also have a step-by-step guide in case you have never created records for your domain addresses, but it is less likely that you'll need it as Hepsia is much simpler to make use of compared with other Control Panels available on the market. Within an hour your new record will be live and your domain name shall start resolving to the servers of the other service provider. In addition, there’s an option to modify the TTL value, which shows how long this record is going to be active if you modify it, from the default 3600 seconds to any value that the other provider may require.