AAAA Records

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An AAAA record is an IP address within the newly introduced IPv6 format and it consists of 8 different sets of hexadecimal digits, in contrast to the IPv4 IPs, which include 4 sets of numbers in between 1 and 255. An example of an IPv6 address would be 3014:0d43:23a3:2354:1320:8f3b:2635:3254 and with this format the amount of IPs which can be created is many times bigger than the number of the IPv4 addresses. Every domain name has its hosting server IP as a record and in essence, that record instructs the domain address where the site for it is. Depending on the system that the service provider employs, the record is going to be called A (IPv4) or AAAA (IPv6). Changing this record will allow you to host your website with one provider and your emails with a different one, so if you choose to use such a redirection to forward a domain address to a server that uses an IPv6 address, you'll need to set up an AAAA record for it.

AAAA Records in Shared Website Hosting

If you use a service through a third-party service provider and you have to set up an AAAA record to forward a domain address or a subdomain to their system, you're going to be able to do that with only a couple of mouse clicks through the Hepsia Control Panel, which comes with all our shared website hosting packages. As soon as you log in, you have to navigate to the DNS Records section in which you are going to find all records for any domain or subdomain hosted in the account. Setting up a new record is as easy as clicking on a button, picking out 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, within a text box. As an added option you are able to modify the TTL value (Time To Live), which determines how long the record is active after you edit it or delete it in the future. The new AAAA record is going to be functioning in no more than an hour and will propagate worldwide two or three hours later, so the hostname for which you have created it will start forwarding to the new server.