diff --git a/pkgs/applications/networking/sync/rsync/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/networking/sync/rsync/default.nix
index 8204e6dcbdf..1863f45162f 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/networking/sync/rsync/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/networking/sync/rsync/default.nix
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 {stdenv, fetchurl}:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation {
-  name = "rsync-2.6.6";
+  name = "rsync-2.6.8";
   src = fetchurl {
-    url = http://nix.cs.uu.nl/dist/tarballs/rsync-2.6.6.tar.gz;
-    md5 = "30c4e2849cbeae93f55548453865c2f2";
+    url = http://rsync.samba.org/ftp/rsync/rsync-2.6.8.tar.gz;
+    md5 = "082a9dba1f741e6591e5cd748a1233de";
   };
 }