AAAA Records

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An AAAA record is an IP within the recently launched IPv6 format and it is comprised of 8 groups of hexadecimal numbers, as opposed to the IPv4 IPs, which include 4 sets of digits in 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 total number of IPs that can be created is many times bigger than the number of the IPv4 addresses. Each domain name has its web hosting server Internet protocol as a record and in essence, that record tells the domain address where the website for it can be found. Depending on the system that the company uses, the record will be called A (IPv4) or AAAA (IPv6). Changing this record allows you to host your site with one provider and your email messages with another, so if you decide to use this kind of redirection to forward a domain name to a server that uses an IPv6 address, you'll have to set up an AAAA record for it.

AAAA Records in Cloud Hosting

If you want to use a domain address or a subdomain that you have in a cloud hosting account on our end for any third-party service and you need to create an AAAA record for that, it won't take you more than just a few clicks to do that via our highly effective, albeit easy-to-use Hepsia Control Panel. After you go to the DNS Records section and then click the Create a New Record button, a small pop-up will appear. This is the area where you could create any DNS record, so you simply have to select the needed domain name or subdomain and the type of record via drop-down menus and enter the IPv6 address, which is the actual record. Even if you have zero experience with such matters, you will not have any troubles as Hepsia is very user-friendly and your new AAAA record is going to propagate within the hour, to enable you to start using your domain/subdomain with the other provider. In case they require it, you're also going to be able to edit the Time To Live (TTL) value for the record, defining how long it will remain active in the global DNS system after you modify it or erase it.