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Add AAAA Record within "Pointing your.domain to IPFS" #352

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Expand Up @@ -119,13 +119,16 @@ you plan to use, you can find it using the command like:
```bash
$ nslookup gateway.ipfs.io
```
And noting the IPv4 addresses returned. You should create an A record for each address.
1. Note the IP addresses returned.
1. Create an A record for each IPv4 address (all results that look like 192.0.2.71).
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1. Create an AAAA record for each IPv6 address (all results that look like 2001:DB8:324A::A1).
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1. Periodically check if one of these addresses changed and update the record.
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Visitors' browsers will send `your.domain` in the Host header of their requests.
The ipfs gateway will recognize `your.domain`, look up the value of the DNS TXT for your domain,
then serve the files in `/ipns/your.domain/` instead of `/`.

If you point `your.domain`'s A record to the IPv4 addreses of `gateway.ipfs.io`, and
If you point `your.domain`'s A and AAAA record to the IP addreses of `gateway.ipfs.io`, and
then wait for the DNS to propagate, then anyone should be able to access your
ipfs-hosted site without any extra configuration at `http://your.domain`.

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