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Discussion on: DNS 101 For Web Developers

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Andreas Jakof • Edited

Since IPv4 is considered "historic" for a while now, there is another record type, which is becoming more and more important:

AAAA Records are much like A Records, but instead of using IPv4-Addresses, they map the name to an IPv6 Address.

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Andreas Jakof

Just for some comparison of address space between IPv6 and IPv4

IPv4: 2^32  =                                       4,294,967,295 
IPv6: 2^128 = 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456
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Joel Varty

Agreed! This is going to be more and more important moving forward!