An alternative approach would be to call "await util.promisify(socket.connect)(8125, host)" so that subsequent calls to send don't need to name the destination (and the underlying runtime could call send instead of sendto). Perhaps the author needs the messages to be sent to a new host quickly when DNS records change, but the trade-off might be different depending on the use case, and perhaps some applications might prefer to periodically re-connect the socket to re-resolve DNS.