diff --git a/lib/SimpleSAML/Memcache.php b/lib/SimpleSAML/Memcache.php
index 0a9dbf8288e9046002003f07ef700bb079296875..1969fa09b550285472f407d7f1fee15b10b0dfaf 100644
--- a/lib/SimpleSAML/Memcache.php
+++ b/lib/SimpleSAML/Memcache.php
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ class Memcache
             if ($serializedInfo === false) {
                 // either the server is down, or we don't have the value stored on that server
                 $mustUpdate = true;
-                $up = $server->getStats();
+                $up = $server->getVersion();
                 if ($up !== false) {
                     $allDown = false;
                 }