Every single device that's connected to the web has a distinctive identifier known as IP (Internet Protocol) address. This includes PCs, web servers, smartphones, switches, and so on. The pool of addresses, that was introduced at first, has been distributed, so the so-called IPv4 IP addresses are slowly getting replaced with IPv6 addresses. Every domain name that opens a website has an IP record, which is the address of the server where it's hosted. With the IPv4 system, the record is called A and it consists of four groups of numbers from 1 to 255 split up using a dot, while with the IPv6 system it is called AAAA and it consists of eight sets of hexadecimal numbers i.e. this type of records use numbers from 0 to 9 and letters from A to F. An example of an AAAA record is 2010:0c48:43d3:2142:1012:8c3a:2475:2435 and this format can handle a considerably bigger number of IPs compared with the IPv4 format.

AAAA Records in 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 a few mouse clicks in the Hepsia Control Panel, supplied with all of our hosting packages. As soon as you log in, you will need to go to the DNS Records section where you are going to find all the records for any domain or subdomain hosted inside the account. Setting up a new record is as simple as clicking on a button, choosing the type from a drop-down options menu, which will be AAAA in this case, and then inserting the value, or the actual IPv6 address, inside a text box. As an additional option you can change the TTL value (Time To Live), which defines how long the record is active after you edit it or remove it in the future. The new AAAA record will be live in only an hour and will propagate around the world an hour or two later, so the hostname for which you have created it will start pointing to the new web server.