return answer;
} else {
// its okay to create a new bootstrap for each new channel
Bootstrap connectionlessClientBootstrap = new Bootstrap();
connectionlessClientBootstrap.channel(NioDatagramChannel.class);
connectionlessClientBootstrap.group(getWorkerGroup());
connectionlessClientBootstrap.option(ChannelOption.CONNECT_TIMEOUT_MILLIS, configuration.getConnectTimeout());
connectionlessClientBootstrap.option(ChannelOption.SO_BROADCAST, configuration.isBroadcast());
connectionlessClientBootstrap.option(ChannelOption.SO_SNDBUF, configuration.getSendBufferSize());
connectionlessClientBootstrap.option(ChannelOption.SO_RCVBUF, configuration.getReceiveBufferSize());