AAAA Records

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Each device that's connected to the Internet has a unique identifier called IP (Internet Protocol) address. This includes personal computers, web servers, smartphones, switches, etc. The pool of IPs, which was introduced initially, is already distributed, so the so-called IPv4 IP addresses are slowly being replaced with IPv6 addresses. Every domain name that opens a site comes with an IP record, that 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 4 groups of numbers from 1 to 255 split up using a dot, while within the IPv6 system it's called AAAA and it is comprised of eight groups of hexadecimal numbers i.e. this sort of records use digits 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 works with a substantially larger amount of IPs in comparison with the IPv4 format.

AAAA Records in Cloud Hosting

If you wish to use a domain or a subdomain that you have inside a cloud hosting account on our end for any third-party service and you have to create an AAAA record for that, it is not going to take you more than just a few mouse clicks to do this through our highly effective, albeit easy-to-use Hepsia CP. Once you navigate to the DNS Records section and then click the Create a New Record button, a little pop-up will show up. This is the place where you could create any DNS record, so you simply have to pick the needed domain or subdomain and the type of record through drop-down navigation and enter the IPv6 address, that is the actual record. Just in case you have no experience with such matters, you'll not have any troubles as Hepsia is quite intuitive and the new AAAA record will propagate within the hour, to enable you to start using your domain/subdomain with the other provider. In case they demand it, you will also be able to modify the Time To Live (TTL) value for the record, determining how long it's going to stay active in the global DNS system after you change it or delete it.