An AAAA record is an Internet protocol address in the recently launched IPv6 format and it is comprised of eight groups of hexadecimal digits, as opposed to the IPv4 IPs, which include four groups of numbers between 1 and 255. An illustration of an IPv6 address would be 3014:0d43:23a3:2354:1320:8f3b:2635:3254 and in this format the sheer number of IPs that can be created is many times bigger than the number of the IPv4 addresses. Each and every domain has its hosting server IP as a record and in essence, this record instructs the domain where the site for it can be found. Depending on the system that the company employs, the record will be called A (IPv4) or AAAA (IPv6). Changing this record permits you to host your Internet site with one provider and your emails with another, so if you decide to use such a 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 Cloud Hosting

If you are using a service with a third-party service provider and you have to set up an AAAA record to direct a domain address or a subdomain to their system, you will be able to do that with just a few clicks through the Hepsia Control Panel, provided with our cloud hosting solutions. Once you sign in, you have to visit the DNS Records section where you are going to find all the records for any domain or subdomain hosted within the account. Creating a new record is as easy as clicking on a button, picking 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 additional option you can modify the TTL value (Time To Live), that outlines how long the record is functioning after you modify it or delete it in the future. The new AAAA record will be live in only an hour and will propagate around the world a few hours later, so the hostname for which you have created it will start redirecting to the new hosting server.