Server List

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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