Each device which is connected to the Internet has a special identifier known as IP (Internet Protocol) address. This includes computers, web servers, smart phones, switches, and so on. The pool of IP addresses, which was introduced initially, has been distributed, so the so-called IPv4 IP addresses are steadily being replaced with IPv6 addresses. Every domain name which opens a site has 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 sets of numbers from 1 to 255 separated using a dot, while in 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 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 considerably bigger amount of IPs when compared with the IPv4 format.
AAAA Records in Shared Web Hosting
If you use a service with a third-party company and you need to set up an AAAA record to direct a domain or a subdomain to their system, you're going to be able to do that with a couple of clicks via the Hepsia CP, which comes with our shared web hosting solutions. When you log in, you have to go to the DNS Records section where you are going to find all of the records for every domain address or subdomain hosted within the account. Creating a new record is as basic as clicking on a button, choosing the type from a drop-down options menu, that will be AAAA in this case, and then entering the value, or the actual IPv6 address, within a text box. As an added option you could modify the TTL value (Time To Live), which defines how long the record is active after you modify it or delete it in the future. The new AAAA record is going to be active in just an hour and will propagate worldwide a couple of hours later, so the hostname for which you have created it will start directing to the new hosting server.