Every device which is connected to the web has a special identifier called IP (Internet Protocol) address. This includes computers, web servers, smart phones, switches, etcetera. The pool of addresses, which was introduced initially, is already distributed, so the so-called IPv4 IP addresses are steadily being replaced with IPv6 addresses. Every domain name that opens a site has 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 comprised of four groups of numbers from 1 to 255 separated with a dot, while within the IPv6 system it is called AAAA and it comprises of 8 groups of hexadecimal numbers i.e. this kind 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 significantly larger amount of IPs in comparison with the IPv4 format.
AAAA Records in Cloud Website Hosting
If you are using a service through a third-party company and you need to create an AAAA record to point a domain name or a subdomain to their system, you are going to be able to do that with just a few clicks in the Hepsia Control Panel, supplied with all our cloud website hosting packages. As soon as you log in, you need to go to the DNS Records section where you will find all of the records for every domain name or subdomain hosted within the account. Creating a new record is as simple as clicking on a button, picking the type from a drop-down menu, which will be AAAA in this case, and then typing the value, or the actual IPv6 address, within a text box. As an added option you can 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 operating in just an hour and will propagate globally an hour or two later, so the hostname for which you have created it will start redirecting to the new web server.