Every device that's connected to the world wide web has a unique identifier known as IP (Internet Protocol) address. This includes personal computers, web servers, smartphones, switches, etc. The pool of addresses, which was introduced at first, has been distributed, so the so-called IPv4 IP addresses are gradually getting replaced with IPv6 addresses. Every domain name that opens an internet site comes with an IP record, which is the address of the server where it's hosted. Using the IPv4 system, the record is called A and it consists of four groups of numbers from 1 to 255 divided with a dot, while in the IPv6 system it is called AAAA and it consists of eight groups of hexadecimal numbers i.e. this type of records use numbers 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 can handle a substantially larger amount of IPs than the IPv4 format.
AAAA Records in Cloud Hosting
If you use 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 just a few mouse clicks through the Hepsia Control Panel, included with our cloud hosting packages. After you log in, you have to visit the DNS Records section in which you will find all the records for any domain name or subdomain hosted inside the account. Setting up a new record is as easy as clicking on a button, selecting the type from a drop-down options menu, which will be AAAA in this case, and then inserting the value, or the actual IPv6 address, within a text box. As an added option you could change the TTL value (Time To Live), which specifies how long the record is going to be functioning after you modify it or erase it in the future. The new AAAA record will be functioning in just an hour and will propagate globally two or three hours later, so the hostname for which you have created it will start directing to the new server.