AAAA is a domain address record, which is essentially the IPv6 address of the web server in which the domain is hosted. The IPv6 system was designed to replace the current IPv4 system where every IP comprises of 4 groups of decimal numbers which range from 1 to 255 e.g. 5.168.208.143. In comparison, an IPv6 address includes eight sets of 4 hexadecimal numbers - ranging from 0 to 9 and from A to F. The cause of this modification is the considerably smaller amount of unique IPs the current system supports and also the speedy increase of products which are connected to the Internet. An illustration of an IPv6 address is 2101:1f34:32e2:2415:1365:4f2b:2553:1345. If you need to point a domain address to a machine which uses this sort of an address, you will need to set up an AAAA record for it, and not the widespread A record, that is an IPv4 address. The 2 records provide the exact same function, but different notations are used, so as to separate the two types of addresses.
AAAA Records in Shared Web Hosting
The cutting-edge Hepsia website hosting CP, included with our shared web hosting, will allow you to create a new AAAA record with ease. When you're in the account and you go to the DNS Records section, you will discover all records that you have for every hosted domain address or a subdomain under it. All it takes to create the AAAA record is to click the New Record button, to choose the domain/subdomain in question, choose AAAA after which just input or copy and paste the IPv6 address. We've got a step-by-step guide if you have never created records for your domain addresses, but it is not likely that you will need it as Hepsia is much easier to make use of compared with other Control Panels available on the market. Within an hour your new record shall be functioning and your domain address shall start resolving to the servers of the other company. Additionally, there is an option to change the TTL value, which shows how long this record will be working if you edit it, from the standard 3600 seconds to any value the other service provider may require.