apply a variant of rovv's bug 872 patch, and document that we want a better solution for 0.2.2.x.

svn:r17924

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diff --git a/doc/TODO.future b/doc/TODO.future
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--- a/doc/TODO.future
+++ b/doc/TODO.future
@@ -49,6 +49,13 @@ Later, unless people want to implement them now:
   - Make the timestamp granularity on logs configurable, with default
     of "1 second".  This might make some kinds of after-the-fact attack harder.
 
+  - We should get smarter about handkling address resolve failures, or
+    addresses that resolve to local IPs.  It would be neat to retry
+    them, since right now we just close the stream.  But we need to
+    make sure we don't retry them on the same exit as before.  But if
+    we mark the circuit, then any user who types "localhost" will
+    cycle through circuits till they run out of retries.  See bug 872.
+
 Can anybody remember why we wanted to do this and/or what it means?
   - config option __ControllerLimit that hangs up if there are a limit
     of controller connections already.