diff --git a/pkgs/applications/networking/esniper/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/networking/esniper/default.nix
index a7d10adc0a7..ca4d8f2f49f 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/networking/esniper/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/networking/esniper/default.nix
@@ -1,14 +1,12 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, openssl, curl, coreutils, gawk, bash, which }:
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, openssl, curl, coreutils, gawk, bash, which }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   name = "esniper-2.35.0";
 
-  src = fetchFromGitHub {
-    owner = "yhfudev";
-    repo = "esniper";
-    rev = "c95140d376db3c991300a7462e6c172b0ccf3eb5";
-    sha256 = "1dfb5hmcrvm3yg9ask362c6s5ylxs21szw23dm737a94br37j890";
-  };
+   src = fetchurl {
+     url    = "mirror://sourceforge/esniper/${stdenv.lib.replaceStrings ["."] ["-"] name}.tgz";
+     sha256 = "04iwjb42lw90c03125bjdpnm0fp78dmwf2j35r7mah0nwcrlagd9";
+   };
 
   buildInputs = [ openssl curl ];