Server List

Here is a list of AA servers commonly used by our customers:

DNS servers
Customer‑facing resolvers	2001:8b0::2020 2001:8b0::2021	These two servers are caching DNS servers - typically used in your TCP/IP settings.
Customer‑facing resolvers	217.169.20.20 217.169.20.21	These two servers are caching DNS servers - typically used in your TCP/IP settings.
DNS over HTTPS (DoH)	available	see: https://www.aa.net.uk/dns/ for information
DNS over TLS (DoT)	available	see: https://www.aa.net.uk/dns/ for information
Customer‑facing resolvers (NAT64)	2001:8b0:6464::1 2001:8b0:6464::2	These DNS servers provide faked IPv6 responses for any host that has an IPv4 address but not an IPv6 address
Internet-facing resolvers	primary‑dns.co.uk secondary‑dns.co.uk	These serve the DNS for domains that we host. You'd only need to know these if we host the DNS for your domain, but the domain is registered with another company
Internet-facing resolvers	auth.primary‑dns.co.uk auth.secondary‑dns.co.uk	Primarily used for reverse DNS records + delegation. You probably don't need to use these directly.
Email servers
Outgoing	smtp.aa.net.uk	There are three machines in the outgoing email server pool. These are used to send email. (Auth/SSL/TLS/ports 25 and 587)
Webmail	https://webmail.aa.net.uk
POP3 & IMAP4	mail.aa.net.uk	Use this in your email clients to collect email by POP3 or IMAP. (tls/ssl/ports 143&993)
Backup relay	tertiary-mx.co.uk	This is a backup relay that will queue and resend email. It doesn't accept spam-looking connections/messages.
Username	full email address	Use your full email address as the username, password set via Domain Management
Webpage hosting
FTP Host	www.your-domain	The web server is limitless.aa.net.uk which can be used if DNS hasn't propagated yet etc.
Username	your-domain	Use the domain name that you are wanting to upload to, e.g. www.testing.me.uk. Password set within the DNS settings for your domain via Domain Management
VoIP
Registrar / proxy	voiceless.aa.net.uk	Our VoIP server
Username	yournumber	Use the phone number assigned to you as the user name. via Telephony Management
Time server
NTP	time.aa.net.uk	Use this to set your clock by NTP
IPv6 tunnel endpoint
	81.187.81.6	For incoming and outgoing
Pingable address
Bottomless	81.187.81.187	This is the AA-end PPP endpoint for DSL customers, and can be used as an IP address to ping to check the service - e.g. Can be used in FireBrick profiles
Bottomless (IPv6)	2001:8b0:0:81::51bb:51bb	IPv6 address of Bottomless
Other servers you may see
Control pages (aka clueless.aa.net.uk)	https://control.aa.net.uk/	Core database management. Username is your ADSL login
Priceless	https://accounts.aa.net.uk/	Accounts (billing) administration. Username is your account number (AnnnnA)
Thankless		Email ticketing system. Email us
Spamless		These servers perform spam scanning on email