[asterisk-users] What don't I get about SIP?

[John Marvin]

Mike wrote:

> Did I misread the Asterisk wiki pages, because I believed that when a
> pattern was present, the pattern takes precedence over any "real"
> extensions? (i.e. if I have both 1234 and _1XXX as extensions in a context)?

It's the opposite. Asterisk always uses the most specific match for an 
extension, i.e. anything that matches _1XXX will take precedence over 
_XXXX, but if it matches _12XX that will take precedence over _1XXX, etc.

John