AAAA Records

What is an AAAA resource record? What role do AAAA records have? Should you add one to your website?

Each device which is connected to the world wide web has a specific identifier referred to as IP (Internet Protocol) address. This includes personal computers, web servers, smartphones, switches, etc. The pool of addresses, that was introduced originally, is already distributed, hence the so-called IPv4 IP addresses are progressively getting replaced with IPv6 addresses. Every domain that opens a website comes with an IP record, that is the address of the server where it's hosted. With the IPv4 system, the record is called A and it is made up of four sets of numbers from 1 to 255 split up using a dot, while in the IPv6 system it's called AAAA and it is made up of eight groups 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 supports a significantly larger amount of IPs than the IPv4 format.

AAAA Records in Website Hosting

In order to use a domain name or a subdomain you have within a website hosting account on our end for any third-party service and you have to set up an AAAA record for that, it is not going to take you more than a few clicks to do this using our powerful, albeit easy-to-use Hepsia CP. As soon as you navigate to the DNS Records section and then click the Create a New Record button, a compact pop-up will show up. This is the area where you could create any DNS record, so you just have to select the needed domain name or subdomain and the type of record through drop-down navigation and input the IPv6 address, that is the actual record. Just in case you have no experience with such matters, you won't have any issues as Hepsia is extremely intuitive and the new AAAA record is going to propagate within the hour, so that you can start using your domain/subdomain with the other company. In case they demand it, you'll also be able to edit the Time To Live (TTL) value for the record, outlining how long it will stay active in the global DNS system after you change it or delete it.