Each device that's connected to the world wide web has a specific identifier named IP (Internet Protocol) address. This includes personal computers, web servers, smart phones, switches, etc. The pool of addresses, that was introduced at first, has already been distributed, therefore the so-called IPv4 IP addresses are steadily getting replaced with IPv6 addresses. Every domain which opens a site has an IP record, that is the address of the server where it's hosted. Using the IPv4 system, the record is called A and it is made up of 4 groups of numbers from 1 to 255 separated by a dot, while with the IPv6 system it is called AAAA and it comprises of 8 sets of hexadecimal numbers i.e. this type of records use digits from 0 to 9 and letters from A to F. A good example of an AAAA record is 2010:0c48:43d3:2142:1012:8c3a:2475:2435 and this format supports a significantly bigger number of IPs when compared with the IPv4 format.

AAAA Records in Hosting

If you need to create a new AAAA record for any domain or subdomain hosted in your hosting account, it is not going to take you more than several basic steps to do that. Our in-house built Hepsia CP is very intuitive to use and is going to permit you to set up or edit any record without difficulty. Once you sign in and visit the DNS Records section, where you'll discover all existing records for your domain names and subdomains, you will simply have to click the "New" button, pick out AAAA from a small drop-down menu in the pop-up that will appear, type or paste the required IPv6 address and save the modification - it is as basic as that. The new record will be 100% working within a maximum of one hour and the hostname you have created it for is going to start opening whatever content you have with the other company. If necessary, you will also be able to modify the TTL (Time To Live) value, which shows the time in seconds that the new record will be active after you eventually modify it to something different or you simply remove it.

AAAA Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

Setting up a new AAAA record for a domain or a subdomain hosted inside a semi-dedicated server from our company features only a few very easy steps, which you'll be able to find inside the Help section of your Hepsia web hosting Control Panel as well. You will have to choose the hostname for which the new record will be created from a drop-down menu where you will find your domain addresses and subdomains. Creating the new AAAA record is as easy as picking out the one that you need and typing in the IPv6 address for it. This is accomplished with no more than a couple of clicks, so you can very easily point 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 working and just about an hour for it to propagate world-wide, so you will be done in no time. The other provider may also request you to set some TTL value for the AAAA record, that's different from the default one - 3600 seconds. This feature reveals how long it will take for any new value which you set for your record to take effect as the old value is still active.