Every device which is connected to the Internet has a unique identifier referred to as IP (Internet Protocol) address. This includes personal computers, web servers, smart phones, switches, etcetera. The pool of IPs, that was introduced initially, has already been distributed, so the so-called IPv4 IP addresses are steadily being replaced with IPv6 addresses. Every domain name which opens a site comes with an IP record, that is the address of the server where it's hosted. With the IPv4 system, the record is called A and it comprises of four groups of numbers from 1 to 255 separated using a dot, while in the IPv6 system it is called AAAA and it is made up of 8 sets of hexadecimal numbers i.e. this type of records use numbers 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 is designed for a significantly larger number of IPs in comparison with the IPv4 format.

AAAA Records in Website Hosting

If you are using a service with a third-party company and you need to create an AAAA record to direct a domain address or a subdomain to their system, you'll be able to do that with a few clicks in the Hepsia Control Panel, which comes with our website hosting plans. After you sign in, you need to go to the DNS Records section where 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, selecting the type from a drop-down options menu, which will be AAAA in this case, and then inputting the value, or the actual IPv6 address, in a text box. As an extra option you can modify the TTL value (Time To Live), which outlines how long the record will be functioning after you modify it or remove it in the future. The new AAAA record will be working in only an hour and will propagate globally an hour or two later, so the hostname for which you have created it will start directing to the new server.