AAAA Records

What exactly is an AAAA resource record? What function do AAAA records serve? Do you need to add one to your site?

AAAA is a domain name record, that is in essence the IPv6 address of the server where the domain name is hosted. The IPv6 system was intended to replace the present IPv4 system where every single IP comprises of 4 groups of decimal digits ranging from 1 to 255 e.g. 5.168.208.143. However, an IPv6 address has eight groups of 4 hexadecimal numbers - from 0 to 9 and from A to F. The reason behind this change is the tremendously smaller range of unique IPs which the present system supports and the fast increase of units which are connected to the Internet. An example of an IPv6 address would be 2101:1f34:32e2:2415:1365:4f2b:2553:1345. If you want to forward a domain to a machine that uses this kind of an address, you will have to set up an AAAA record for it, not the widely used A record, that is an IPv4 address. The 2 records provide the exact same function, yet different notations are used, so as to identify the two types of addresses.

AAAA Records in Web Hosting

In order to use a domain address or a subdomain which you have in a web hosting account on our end for any third-party service and you ought to create an AAAA record for that, it won't take you more than only a few mouse clicks to do that through our highly effective, albeit easy-to-use Hepsia CP. Once you go to the DNS Records section and then click the Create a New Record button, a compact pop-up will show up. This is the spot in which you can create any DNS record, so you only have to pick the needed domain address or subdomain and the type of record from drop-down navigation and input the IPv6 address, which is the actual record. If you happen to have zero experience with such matters, you won't have any difficulties as Hepsia is quite intuitive and the new AAAA record will propagate within the hour, to enable you to start using your domain/subdomain with the other company. In case they demand it, you're also going to be able to edit the Time To Live (TTL) value for the record, defining how long it is going to remain active in the global DNS system after you change it or remove it.