diff --git a/xbps-src/common/fetch_sites.sh b/xbps-src/common/fetch_sites.sh
index 5485e306ca..212e1dd46f 100644
--- a/xbps-src/common/fetch_sites.sh
+++ b/xbps-src/common/fetch_sites.sh
@@ -9,7 +9,8 @@ UBUNTU_SITE="http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool"
 XORG_SITE="http://xorg.freedesktop.org/releases/individual"
 DEBIAN_SITE="http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool"
 GNOME_SITE="http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources"
-KERNEL_SITE="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux"
+#KERNEL_SITE="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux"
+KERNEL_SITE="http://mirror.be.gbxs.net/pub/linux"
 CPAN_SITE="http://cpan.perl.org/modules/by-module"
 MOZILLA_SITE="http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org"
 GNU_SITE="http://mirrors.kernel.org/gnu"