Hi, I am trying to enter the shopify IP into the dns aaaa record at the fasthosts site and the above error is coming up. Please help!

Thank you for your help. I just failed to spot the A instead of AAAA option

Hi, do not try to add a IPv6 ip, the Shopify address you need to add is a IPv4 address

Hi My hosting provider told me i should add the ipv6 because some new devices will require ipv6 and if i don’t point that to my webshop the user will be forwarded to the hosting provider website where he will get a notification that the domain in question is busy. That’s not what i want to happen. …

hi i got the same question. any solution?

Hi there, @kiwi8 ! Thanks for taking the time to follow up on this older thread! If you’re looking to point your domain to Shopify via AAAA records, you can use the following address to do so: 2620:0127:f00f:5:: Hope this helps!

Hi. it does not work. the ipv6 address is invalid. https://community.shopify.com/topic/2530230

Hey there! Thank you for that link. I did some digging into this and I believe I have discovered the issue. Zoho webhosting does not support compacted IP addresses, which in a AAAA record is shown as two colons back to back “::”. While there is a whole scope of information regarding compacted vs ex…

Record must point to a valid IPv6 address

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PeanutButter January 18, 2021, 10:02am 3

Hi, did you check this again?

If you send some screenshots of your dns config I can assist you further

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Record must point to a valid IPv6 address

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