diff --git a/lib/pingpong.c b/lib/pingpong.c
index fcc9dd560..6f27f5761 100644
--- a/lib/pingpong.c
+++ b/lib/pingpong.c
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
  *                            | (__| |_| |  _ <| |___
  *                             \___|\___/|_| \_\_____|
  *
- * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2009, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
+ * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2010, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
  *
  * This software is licensed as described in the file COPYING, which
  * you should have received as part of this distribution. The terms
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ long Curl_pp_state_timeout(struct pingpong *pp)
 {
   struct connectdata *conn = pp->conn;
   struct SessionHandle *data=conn->data;
-  long timeout_ms=360000; /* in milliseconds */
+  long timeout_ms; /* in milliseconds */
 
   if(data->set.server_response_timeout )
     /* if CURLOPT_SERVER_RESPONSE_TIMEOUT is set, use that to determine