Connecting to the Always On Listener

Hello,

We have a listener configured for our 2012 AlwaysOn configuration.  We also have a service broker process (SQL 2012) that connects to the listener to add data to the AlwaysOn instance. 

If we use a fully qualified listener name in the route, we only connect sporadically on the failover nodes.  Does Service Broker require a net bios connection?  Our network team is not wild about this.  The net bios connection, however is dependable after failover.

Does service broker require a restart after a failover?  Is this the issue?

We are new to service broker.  Any help appreciated.

Dianne

Dianne