diff --git a/doc/Changelog b/doc/Changelog
index 82502bc14..9f14eafa5 100644
--- a/doc/Changelog
+++ b/doc/Changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+17 February 2020: George
+	- Remove unused variable.
+
 17 February 2020: Wouter
 	- contrib/drop2rpz: perl script that converts the Spamhaus DROP-List
 	  in RPZ-Format, contributed by Andreas Schulze.
diff --git a/services/outside_network.c b/services/outside_network.c
index 9876c2150..80b1f1245 100644
--- a/services/outside_network.c
+++ b/services/outside_network.c
@@ -1974,7 +1974,6 @@ serviced_udp_callback(struct comm_point* c, void* arg, int error,
 
 	sq->pending = NULL; /* removed after callback */
 	if(error == NETEVENT_TIMEOUT) {
-		int rto = 0;
 		if(sq->status == serviced_query_UDP_EDNS && sq->last_rtt < 5000) {
 			/* fallback to 1480/1280 */
 			sq->status = serviced_query_UDP_EDNS_FRAG;
@@ -1990,9 +1989,9 @@ serviced_udp_callback(struct comm_point* c, void* arg, int error,
 			sq->status = serviced_query_UDP_EDNS;
 		}
 		sq->retry++;
-		if(!(rto=infra_rtt_update(outnet->infra, &sq->addr, sq->addrlen,
+		if(!infra_rtt_update(outnet->infra, &sq->addr, sq->addrlen,
 			sq->zone, sq->zonelen, sq->qtype, -1, sq->last_rtt,
-			(time_t)now.tv_sec)))
+			(time_t)now.tv_sec))
 			log_err("out of memory in UDP exponential backoff");
 		if(sq->retry < OUTBOUND_UDP_RETRY) {
 			log_name_addr(VERB_ALGO, "retry query", sq->qbuf+10,