AAAA Records

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Every device that is connected to the world wide web has a special identifier referred to as IP (Internet Protocol) address. This includes computer systems, web servers, smartphones, switches, and so on. The pool of IP addresses, that was introduced originally, has been distributed, therefore the so-called IPv4 IP addresses are progressively getting replaced with IPv6 addresses. Every domain name which opens a website has an IP record, that is the address of the server where it is hosted. With the IPv4 system, the record is called A and it is comprised of 4 sets of numbers from 1 to 255 separated using a dot, while within the IPv6 system it is called AAAA and it is made up of eight groups of hexadecimal numbers i.e. this kind of records use digits from 0 to 9 and letters from A to F. An example of an AAAA record is 2010:0c48:43d3:2142:1012:8c3a:2475:2435 and this format can handle a considerably larger amount of IPs compared with the IPv4 format.

: AAAA Records in Shared Web Hosting

If you need to set up a new AAAA record a domain name or subdomain hosted in your shared web hosting account, it won't take you more than a few basic steps to do that. Our in-house built Hepsia CP is rather intuitive to use and it will permit you to set up or modify every record effortlessly. Once you log in and visit the DNS Records section, where you can find 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 options menu inside the pop-up which will show up, enter or paste the needed IPv6 address and save the change - it is as simple as that. The new record is going to be fully active within a maximum of one hour and the hostname that you have created it for will start opening whatever content you have with the other company. When required, you will also be able to change the TTL (Time To Live) value, which indicates the time in seconds that the new record will be functioning after you eventually edit it to something different or you simply delete it.