Each device that's connected to the world wide web has a specific identifier referred to as IP (Internet Protocol) address. This includes personal computers, web servers, smart phones, switches, etcetera. The pool of IPs, that was introduced initially, has already been distributed, therefore the so-called IPv4 IP addresses are gradually being 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. With the IPv4 system, the record is called A and it comprises of 4 groups of numbers from 1 to 255 split up by a dot, while with the IPv6 system it's called AAAA and it consists 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 example of an AAAA record is 2010:0c48:43d3:2142:1012:8c3a:2475:2435 and this format can handle a considerably larger number of IPs in comparison with the IPv4 format.
AAAA Records in Cloud Hosting
If you use a service with a third-party service provider and you have to set up an AAAA record to direct a domain or a subdomain to their system, you are going to be able to do that with just a few clicks within the Hepsia CP, provided with our cloud hosting packages. After you log in, you will need to visit the DNS Records section in which you will find all the records for every domain address or subdomain hosted in the account. Creating a new record is as easy as clicking on a button, picking the type from a drop-down options menu, that 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 could modify the TTL value (Time To Live), that defines how long the record will be functioning after you modify it or delete it in the future. The new AAAA record is going to be active in only an hour and will propagate worldwide two or three hours later, so the hostname for which you have created it will start pointing to the new server.