AAAA is a domain name record, that is in essence the IPv6 address of the server in which the domain name is hosted. The IPv6 system was intended to replace the present IPv4 system in which each and every IP address consists of four groups of decimal digits between 1 to 255 e.g. 5.168.208.143. In contrast, an IPv6 address includes 8 groups of four hexadecimal numbers - ranging from 0 to 9 and from A to F. The cause of this modification is the substantially smaller range of unique IPs which the current system supports and also the fast increase of units which are connected to the world wide web. A good example of an IPv6 address is 2101:1f34:32e2:2415:1365:4f2b:2553:1345. If you want to direct a domain address to a machine that uses this sort of an address, you have to set up an AAAA record for it, and not the commonly used A record, that is an IPv4 address. The 2 records deliver the same exact function, yet different notations are used, in order to distinguish the two sorts of addresses.
AAAA Records in Shared Web Hosting
If you are using a service through a third-party company and you have to set up an AAAA record to forward a domain or a subdomain to their system, you'll be able to do that with only a couple of mouse clicks in the Hepsia CP, provided with all of our shared web hosting packages. As soon as you sign in, you need to navigate to the DNS Records section where you will find all records for any domain or subdomain hosted in the account. Creating a new record is as basic as clicking on a button, picking out the type from a drop-down options menu, that is to be AAAA in this case, and then typing the value, or the actual IPv6 address, within a text box. As an additional option you could modify the TTL value (Time To Live), that specifies how long the record will be functioning after you change it or erase it in the future. The new AAAA record is going to be live in no more than an hour and will propagate worldwide a couple of hours later, so the hostname for which you have created it will start redirecting to the new web server.