Question on the order of the outbound routes

General Help
1

I have a question on the order of the outbound routes, does it check them in order, and then proceed to the next one, only if there is no match?

IE.

If I want to blocked pay per minute numbers like 900 and 976 do I need to have a route to match:
1900NXXXXXX
1976NXXXXXX
and then go to a fake trunk, or require a password, above my normal route?

IE.
In route1 I have:
NXXNXXXXXX
In route 2 I have
1900NXXXXXX
1976NXXXXXX

Will 1-900-333-4444 match on route 1, and goto the trunk route 1 uses, without asterisk even checking to see if it matches route 2? Or will it know to look at all routes and match the most specific pattern?

TIA!

2

Quite correct, as the system will take the first matching trunk.

There’s a few posts on this, but here’s one that I prepared earlier…

http://www.freepbx.org/forum/freepbx/tips-and-tricks/tip-how-to-block-staff-guests-from-dialling-1900-x-numbers

3

Thanks, great post!