AAAA Records

What's an AAAA resource record? What role do AAAA records have? Do you have to include one to your domain?

An AAAA record is an IP address in the newly introduced IPv6 format and it consists of eight sets of hexadecimal numbers, as opposed to the IPv4 IPs, that include four sets of digits between 1 and 255. An example of an IPv6 address would be 3014:0d43:23a3:2354:1320:8f3b:2635:3254 and in this format the sheer number of IPs which can be created is many times higher than the number of the IPv4 addresses. Every single domain has its website hosting server IP as a record and in essence, this record instructs the domain address where the Internet site for it is located. Depending on the system which the company employs, the record will be called A (IPv4) or AAAA (IPv6). Changing this record allows you to host your Internet site with one company and your e-mails with a different one, so if you choose to use this kind of redirection to point a domain to a server that uses an IPv6 address, you will need to create an AAAA record for it.

AAAA Records in Cloud Web Hosting

In order to use a domain or a subdomain which you have inside a cloud web hosting account on our end for any third-party service and you ought to create an AAAA record for that, it is not going to take you more than just a few mouse clicks to do that via our highly effective, albeit easy-to-use Hepsia Control Panel. Once you visit the DNS Records section and click on the Create a New Record button, a little pop-up will show up. This is the area where you could set up any DNS record, so you just have to choose the needed domain name or subdomain and the type of record from drop-down menus and type in the IPv6 address, that’s the actual record. In case you have zero experience with such matters, you'll not have any issues as Hepsia is very intuitive and the new AAAA record is going to propagate within the hour, to enable you to start using your domain/subdomain with the other company. Provided they require it, you'll also be able to edit the Time To Live (TTL) value for the record, determining how long it will remain active in the global DNS system after you modify it or erase it.