diff --git a/srcpkgs/slrn/template b/srcpkgs/slrn/template
index 1ba31ec4e59..8abe5c9ed55 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/slrn/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/slrn/template
@@ -13,7 +13,8 @@ short_desc="Text mode Usenet news reader"
 maintainer="Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@gmail.com>"
 license="GPL-2"
 homepage="http://www.slrn.org/"
-distfiles="http://jedsoft.org/releases/slrn/${pkgname}-${version}.tar.bz2"
+# distfiles="http://jedsoft.org/releases/slrn/${pkgname}-${version}.tar.bz2"
+distfiles="https://ftp.icm.edu.pl/packages/slrn/slrn-${version}.tar.bz2"
 checksum=3ba8a4d549201640f2b82d53fb1bec1250f908052a7983f0061c983c634c2dac
 nocross=yes  # need to host-compile chkslang