Each device that's connected to the Internet has a distinctive identifier named IP (Internet Protocol) address. This includes personal computers, web servers, smart phones, switches, etc. The pool of addresses, which was introduced initially, has already been distributed, so the so-called IPv4 IP addresses are steadily being replaced with IPv6 addresses. Every domain which opens an internet site comes with 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 is made up of four sets of numbers from 1 to 255 divided with a dot, while in the IPv6 system it's called AAAA and it comprises 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 illustration of an AAAA record is 2010:0c48:43d3:2142:1012:8c3a:2475:2435 and this format supports a significantly larger amount of IPs in comparison with the IPv4 format.

AAAA Records in Hosting

If you are using a service with a third-party service provider and you need to set up an AAAA record to forward a domain address or a subdomain to their system, you'll be able to do that with a couple of mouse clicks in the Hepsia Control Panel, which comes with all our hosting plans. When you sign in, you have to go to the DNS Records section where you will find all records for every domain address or subdomain hosted within the account. Creating a new record is as easy as clicking on a button, picking the type from a drop-down options menu, that is to be AAAA in this case, and then entering the value, or the actual IPv6 address, within a text box. As an added option you could modify the TTL value (Time To Live), that determines how long the record will be active after you edit it or erase it in the future. The new AAAA record is going to be working in just an hour and will propagate globally a few hours later, so the hostname for which you have created it will start pointing to the new web server.

AAAA Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

Setting up a new AAAA record for a domain name or a subdomain hosted in a semi-dedicated server from our company includes a few simple steps, which you'll be able to find inside the Help section of your Hepsia website hosting CP as well. You'll have to select the hostname for which the new record will be created from a drop-down menu in which you will find your domains and subdomains. Setting up the new AAAA record is as easy as choosing the one that you need and typing in the IPv6 address for it. This is achieved with no more than a couple of clicks, so you can easily direct any hostname to a different company by using an AAAA record and use it with whatever service they supply. It will take mere seconds for the new record to be active and only about an hour for it to propagate globally, so you will be done in no time. The other provider can also require you to set some TTL value for the AAAA record, which is different from the default one - 3600 seconds. This feature outlines how long it will take for any new value that you set for your record to take effect while the old value is still active.