According to this issue which was resolved in Camel 2.10, a Camel AddRoute may block when using AMQ failover and one broker is down.

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CAMEL-4770

http://grokbase.com/t/camel/users/11by4m0k0c/adding-jms-route-may-block-if-remote-is-down-using-failover-connection

My Camel route hangs although my distributed brokers are all active.   

I'm using Fuse Camel 2.8.0. 

- The route consumes from a durable JMS topic

- It works perfectly when the brokerURL uses a single broker,

- The route hangs on startup when the brokerURL contains "failover://(ssl://node:port,ssl:node:port)"

I've independently confirmed distributed broker connectivity using the Fuse mq-client sample app

When a timeout setting is used in the failover brokerURL, the route will start, but throws an exception (which I have not yet attempted to handle), and the route is not added.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

--scott c.