title: What is the default timeout for Ask in Akka?
body: <p>What is the default value for the timeout of Ask in Akka?</p>
  
  <p>All that is necessary to use the ask method in Akka is to import akka.pattern.ask. In the docs, there are examples of ask where no timeout is supplied either directly or as an implicit val.</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/2.5/actors.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/2.5/actors.html</a></p>
  
  <p>I have read the source for ask myself and cannot find a default value supplied for the timeout. However, the ask method works fine even when no timeout is supplied, meaning a default value is used, somewhere.</p>
  
  <p>What is this default value, and how is it supplied to ask?</p>