An AAAA record is an Internet protocol address within the freshly introduced IPv6 format and it is made up of eight sets of hexadecimal digits, as opposed to the IPv4 IPs, which feature 4 sets of numbers between 1 and 255. An illustration of an IPv6 address would be 3014:0d43:23a3:2354:1320:8f3b:2635:3254 and in this format the number of IPs that could be created is many times bigger than the number of the IPv4 addresses. Every single domain has its hosting server IP as a record and in essence, this unique record informs the domain name where the Internet site for it is located. Depending on the system which the company uses, the record is going to be called A (IPv4) or AAAA (IPv6). Changing this record permits you to host your site with one provider and your email messages with another, so if you choose to use this type of redirection to point a domain name to a server that uses an IPv6 address, you'll have to set up an AAAA record for it.
AAAA Records in Shared Hosting
If you use a service with a third-party company and you've got to set up an AAAA record to direct a domain address or a subdomain to their system, you will be able to do that with just a couple of clicks through the Hepsia Control Panel, supplied with our shared hosting packages. As soon as you sign in, you need to visit the DNS Records section where you are going to find all records for every domain or subdomain hosted in the account. Setting up a new record is as basic as clicking on a button, choosing the type from a drop-down menu, that will be AAAA in this case, and then typing the value, or the actual IPv6 address, in a text box. As an added option you are able to change the TTL value (Time To Live), that specifies how long the record is going to be live after you change it or remove it in the future. The new AAAA record will be functioning in no more than an hour and will propagate around the world a couple of hours later, so the hostname for which you have created it will start forwarding to the new server.
AAAA Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
Creating a new AAAA record for a domain or a subdomain hosted inside a semi-dedicated server from our company features a few very simple steps, which you will be able to find within the Help section of your Hepsia website hosting Control Panel as well. You'll need to pick the hostname for which the new record will be created from a drop-down menu in which you will find all of 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 done with no more than several mouse clicks, so you can effortlessly point any hostname to a different service provider by using an AAAA record and use it with whatever service they offer. It will take mere seconds for the new record to be working and just around an hour for it to propagate around the globe, so you will be done in no time. The other service provider can also require you to set some TTL value for the AAAA record, that's different from the default one - 3600 seconds. This feature determines how long it will take for any new value that you set for your record to take effect as the old value is still active.