Every device that is connected to the Internet has a specific identifier named IP (Internet Protocol) address. This includes computers, web servers, smartphones, switches, and so on. The pool of IPs, that was introduced at first, is already distributed, therefore the so-called IPv4 IP addresses are gradually being replaced with IPv6 addresses. Every domain which opens a site comes with 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 made up of 4 sets of numbers from 1 to 255 split up by a dot, while within the IPv6 system it's called AAAA and it is made up of eight groups of hexadecimal numbers i.e. this type of records use numbers 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 supports a substantially greater amount of IPs when compared with the IPv4 format.
AAAA Records in Shared Web Hosting
If you are using a service with a third-party provider and you've got to set up an AAAA record to forward a domain name or a subdomain to their system, you're going to be able to do that with a couple of mouse clicks in the Hepsia CP, included with all of our shared web hosting packages. After you log in, you will need to proceed to the DNS Records section in which you are going to find all of the records for every domain address or subdomain hosted in the account. Setting up a new record is as easy as clicking on a button, picking out the type from a drop-down options menu, which will be AAAA in this case, and then inputting the value, or the actual IPv6 address, within a text box. As an additional option you are able to modify the TTL value (Time To Live), which defines how long the record is active after you change it or erase it in the future. The new AAAA record will be active in no more than an hour and will propagate around the world two or three hours later, so the hostname for which you have created it will start redirecting to the new hosting server.