An AAAA record is an IP in the recently released IPv6 format and it is comprised of 8 sets of hexadecimal digits, as opposed to the IPv4 IPs, which include four sets of digits between 1 and 255. A good example of an IPv6 address would be 3014:0d43:23a3:2354:1320:8f3b:2635:3254 and with this format the number of IPs that could be created is many times higher than the number of the IPv4 addresses. Each and every domain has its web hosting server IP address as a record and in essence, this record instructs the domain where the Internet site for it can be found. Depending on the system which the provider uses, the record will be called A (IPv4) or AAAA (IPv6). Changing this record will allow you to host your website with one provider and your e-mails with another, so if you decide to use such a redirection to point a domain to a server that uses an IPv6 address, you'll have to create an AAAA record for it.

AAAA Records in Web Hosting

If you use a service with a third-party service provider and you've got to create an AAAA record to forward a domain address or a subdomain to their system, you're going to be able to do that with just a few mouse clicks via the Hepsia CP, supplied with our web hosting plans. Once you sign in, you need to proceed to the DNS Records section where you are going to find all records for any domain address or subdomain hosted within the account. Setting up a new record is as easy as clicking on a button, selecting the type from a drop-down options menu, which will be AAAA in this case, and then entering the value, or the actual IPv6 address, in a text box. As an additional option you can modify the TTL value (Time To Live), that defines how long the record will be live after you edit it or erase it in the future. The new AAAA record will be active in no more than an hour and will propagate around the world a few hours later, so the hostname for which you have created it will start forwarding to the new server.