AAAA Records

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

Each device that is connected to the world wide web has a distinctive identifier referred to as IP (Internet Protocol) address. This includes computer systems, web servers, smart phones, switches, etc. The pool of IP addresses, which was introduced at first, has been distributed, therefore the so-called IPv4 IP addresses are slowly getting replaced with IPv6 addresses. Every domain name that opens a site comes with an IP record, which is the address of the server where it is hosted. When using the IPv4 system, the record is called A and it is comprised of four sets of numbers from 1 to 255 divided by a dot, while with the IPv6 system it's called AAAA and it is comprised of 8 sets of hexadecimal numbers i.e. this sort of records use numbers from 0 to 9 and letters from A to F. An illustration of an AAAA record is 2010:0c48:43d3:2142:1012:8c3a:2475:2435 and this format supports a considerably bigger amount of IPs than the IPv4 format.

AAAA Records in Web Hosting

If you'd like to create a new AAAA record a domain name or subdomain hosted inside your web hosting account, it is not going to take you more than a few simple steps to do that. Our in-house built Hepsia CP is rather intuitive to use and is going to enable you to set up or modify every single record with ease. Once you sign in and navigate to the DNS Records section, in which you'll discover all current records for your domain names and subdomains, you will just have to click on the "New" button, pick out AAAA from a small drop-down options menu inside the pop-up which will appear, enter or paste the required IPv6 address and save the modification - it's as simple as that. The new record shall be 100% working within only one hour and the hostname you have created it for shall start opening whatever content you have with the other company. If needed, you are also going to be able to edit the TTL (Time To Live) value, which indicates the time in seconds that the new record will be live after you eventually change it to something different or you simply remove it.