Each device that's connected to the web has a distinctive identifier named IP (Internet Protocol) address. This includes computer systems, web servers, smart phones, switches, etc. The pool of IP addresses, which was introduced at first, is already distributed, hence the so-called IPv4 IP addresses are steadily being replaced with IPv6 addresses. Every domain which opens a site 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 separated using a dot, while in the IPv6 system it's called AAAA and it is comprised of eight sets of hexadecimal numbers i.e. this sort 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 is designed for a considerably greater amount of IPs in comparison with the IPv4 format.

AAAA Records in Website Hosting

If you use a service through a third-party provider and you need to create an AAAA record to forward a domain name or a subdomain to their system, you will be able to do that with only a few clicks in the Hepsia Control Panel, included with our website hosting solutions. After you sign in, you will need to navigate to the DNS Records section where you are going to find all records for every domain or subdomain hosted inside the account. Creating a new record is as easy as clicking on a button, picking out the type from a drop-down menu, that is to be AAAA in this case, and then typing the value, or the actual IPv6 address, within a text box. As an extra option you could change the TTL value (Time To Live), which defines how long the record will be active after you modify it or erase it in the future. The new AAAA record will be active in just 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.