Shopify/statsd-instrument — pull request #6 by betamatt (2012-02-10 20:37:24+00:00)
Title: Catch error conditions that can result even when using UDP

There's a bunch of issues that can result from the DNS request which happens before packets start going out over UDP. This patch ensures that any such network errors are logged instead of bubbling up and that requests which black-hole will timeout quickly.