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. More |
| 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. More |
| 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 End Point | ||
| 81.187.81.6 | For incoming and outgoing. More | |
| Pingable Address | ||
| Bottomless | 81.187.81.187 | This is the PPP endpoint for ADSL 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) | https://control.aa.net.uk/ | Core Database Management. Username is your ADSL login More |
| Priceless | https://accounts.aa.net.uk/ | Accounts (billing) administration. Username is your Account Number (AnnnnA) More |
| Thankless | Email ticketing system. Email us | |
| Spamless | These servers perform spam scanning on email | |