when attempting to use nc to send udp packets to the istatd master in a functional test, I found that none of the packets seemed to arrive.
I was attempting to write a functional test to replicate a problem when I send 10 counter "increment" samples as fast as possible, the server didn't appear to recieve at least two of the samples. However, my attempt to reproduce this in a functional test was stymied by the inability to use UDP packet sends.