From d204aa6f3195ae6cec791205bda9fbc8e0c27702 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kevin Kreiser <kevinkreiser@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2021 10:18:10 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] bail early if the statsd host is un/misconfigured

---
 include/cpp-statsd-client/UDPSender.hpp | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/cpp-statsd-client/UDPSender.hpp b/include/cpp-statsd-client/UDPSender.hpp
index c7d667a..e0b1d7b 100644
--- a/include/cpp-statsd-client/UDPSender.hpp
+++ b/include/cpp-statsd-client/UDPSender.hpp
@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ inline UDPSender::UDPSender(const std::string& host,
                             const uint64_t sendInterval) noexcept
     : m_host(host), m_port(port), m_batchsize(batchsize), m_sendInterval(sendInterval) {
     // Initialize the socket
-    if (!initialize()) {
+    if (m_host.empty() || !initialize()) {
         return;
     }