An AAAA record is an Internet protocol address in the newly released IPv6 format and it consists of eight different sets of hexadecimal digits, as opposed to the IPv4 IPs, which include four sets of numbers in between 1 and 255. A good example of an IPv6 address would be 3014:0d43:23a3:2354:1320:8f3b:2635:3254 and in this format the number of IPs which can be created is many times greater than the number of the IPv4 addresses. Each and every domain name has its website hosting server IP address as a record and in essence, this unique record instructs the domain where the Internet site for it is. Depending on the system which the service provider employs, the record is going to be called A (IPv4) or AAAA (IPv6). Changing this record allows you to host your site with one provider and your email messages with another, so if you decide to use this sort of redirection to forward a domain to a server that uses an IPv6 address, you will have to set up an AAAA record for it.

AAAA Records in Website Hosting

If you are using a service through a third-party company and you've got to set up an AAAA record to point a domain address or a subdomain to their system, you're going to be able to do that with just a few clicks through the Hepsia Control Panel, included with all of our website hosting plans. When you sign in, you have to go to the DNS Records section in which you are going to find all of the records for any domain address or subdomain hosted inside the account. Setting up a new record is as simple as clicking on a button, picking 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, inside a text box. As an additional option you could edit the TTL value (Time To Live), that specifies how long the record is functioning after you edit it or remove it in the future. The new AAAA record is going to be functioning in only an hour and will propagate around the world a couple of hours later, so the hostname for which you have created it will start forwarding to the new hosting server.