AAAA Records

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AAAA is a domain address record, that's in essence the IPv6 address of the web server where the domain is hosted. The IPv6 system was designed to replace the present IPv4 system in which each IP consists of four sets of decimal numbers ranging from 1 to 255 e.g. 5.168.208.143. In contrast, an IPv6 address includes eight groups of four hexadecimal digits - ranging from 0 to 9 and from A to F. The reason for this modification is the tremendously smaller selection of unique IPs which the existing system supports and also the speedy increase of devices which are connected to the world wide web. A good example of an IPv6 address is 2101:1f34:32e2:2415:1365:4f2b:2553:1345. If you want to forward a domain to a web server that uses this kind of an address, you will need to set up an AAAA record for it, not the widely used A record, which is an IPv4 address. Both records deliver the exact same function, yet different notations are used, so as to differentiate the two types of addresses.

: AAAA Records in Cloud Hosting

The highly developed Hepsia web hosting CP, which comes with our cloud hosting, will permit you to create a new AAAA record effortlessly. When you're inside the account and you navigate to the DNS Records section, you will find all records that you have for every hosted domain or a subdomain under it. All it takes to create the AAAA record is to click the New Record button, to pick the domain/subdomain in question, select AAAA after which just enter or copy and paste the IPv6 address. We've got a step-by-step guide if you have never created records for your domains, but it is not likely that you will need it as Hepsia is much easier to work with in comparison with other Control Panels available. Within an hour your new record is going to be active and your domain name will start resolving to the servers of the other provider. There is also an option to modify the TTL value, which determines how long this record will be active if you change it, from the default 3600 seconds to any value which the other service provider may require.