diff --git a/pkgs/perl/perl.fix b/pkgs/perl/perl.fix
index e8edaf214618..e92312f46cde 100644
--- a/pkgs/perl/perl.fix
+++ b/pkgs/perl/perl.fix
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Package(
   , ("build", Relative("perl/perl-build.sh"))
 
   , ("src", Call(IncludeFix("fetchurl/fetchurl.fix"),
-      [ ("url", "http://www.perl.com/CPAN/src/5.0/perl-5.8.0.tar.gz")
+      [ ("url", "ftp://ftp.cs.uu.nl/mirror/CPAN/src/5.0/perl-5.8.0.tar.gz")
       , ("md5", "d9bdb180620306023fd35901a2878b62")
       ]))