Folsom l3 agent unable to connect to quantum service

If the quantum service and the l3 agent are on different hosts and the quantum service restarts then the l3 agent is unable to reconnect to the quantum service:

[root@dhcp-4-22 ~(keystone_admin)]$ tail /var/log/quantum/l3-agent.log
    headers=headers, params=params)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/quantumclient/v2_0/client.py", line 527, in retry_request
    headers=headers, params=params)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/quantumclient/v2_0/client.py", line 472, in do_request
    self._handle_fault_response(status_code, replybody)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/quantumclient/v2_0/client.py", line 453, in _handle_fault_response
    exception_handler_v20(status_code, des_error_body)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/quantumclient/v2_0/client.py", line 86, in exception_handler_v20
    message=message)
QuantumClientException: [Errno 111] ECONNREFUSED
[root@dhcp-4-22 ~(keystone_admin)]$ tail /var/log/quantum/l3-agent.log
    headers=headers, params=params)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/quantumclient/v2_0/client.py", line 527, in retry_request
    headers=headers, params=params)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/quantumclient/v2_0/client.py", line 472, in do_request
    self._handle_fault_response(status_code, replybody)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/quantumclient/v2_0/client.py", line 453, in _handle_fault_response
    exception_handler_v20(status_code, des_error_body)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/quantumclient/v2_0/client.py", line 86, in exception_handler_v20
    message=message)
QuantumClientException: [Errno 111] ECONNREFUSED
[root@dhcp-4-22 ~(keystone_admin)]$

This is only relevant to the stable folsom version