AAAA is a domain name record, that is in essence the IPv6 address of the web server in which the domain is hosted. The IPv6 system was intended to replace the existing IPv4 system in which each IP consists of four sets of decimal digits which range from 1 to 255 e.g. 5.168.208.143. In comparison, an IPv6 address includes 8 sets of 4 hexadecimal numbers - which range from 0 to 9 and from A to F. The reason for this transformation is the significantly smaller selection of unique IPs the existing system supports and the quick increase of products that are connected to the Internet. An illustration of an IPv6 address would be 2101:1f34:32e2:2415:1365:4f2b:2553:1345. If you'd like to point a domain name to a server which uses this sort of an address, you'll have to create an AAAA record for it, not the widespread A record, that is an IPv4 address. The two records deliver the same exact function, yet different notations are used, to identify the two forms of addresses.
AAAA Records in Website Hosting
If you are using a service with a third-party service provider and you have to set up an AAAA record to forward a domain address or a subdomain to their system, you're going to be able to do that with only a couple of clicks via the Hepsia Control Panel, included with our website hosting packages. When you sign in, you have to navigate to the DNS Records section in which you are going to find all of the records for every domain name or subdomain hosted inside the account. Setting up a new record is as basic as clicking on a button, selecting the type from a drop-down menu, which will be AAAA in this case, and then entering the value, or the actual IPv6 address, within a text box. As an additional option you could edit the TTL value (Time To Live), which defines how long the record is functioning after you change it or erase it in the future. The new AAAA record will be live in just an hour and will propagate around the world a couple of hours later, so the hostname for which you have created it will start redirecting to the new hosting server.