diff --git a/pkgs/applications/editors/ed/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/editors/ed/default.nix
index 650a551cb601..680b7f8a0307 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/editors/ed/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/editors/ed/default.nix
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   name = "ed-1.13";
+  file_md5 = "fb8ffc8d8072e13dd5799131e889bfa5"; # for fedora mirror
 
   src = fetchurl {
     # gnu only provides *.lz tarball, which is unfriendly for stdenv bootstrapping
@@ -9,7 +10,10 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     # When updating, please make sure the sources pulled match those upstream by
     # Unpacking both tarballs and running `find . -type f -exec sha256sum \{\} \; | sha256sum`
     # in the resulting directory
-    url = "http://fossies.org/linux/privat/${name}.tar.bz2";
+    urls = [
+      "http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/repo/extras/ed/${name}.tar.bz2/${file_md5}/${name}.tar.bz2"
+      "http://fossies.org/linux/privat/${name}.tar.bz2"
+    ];
     sha256 = "1iym2fsamxr886l3sz8lqzgf00bip5cr0aly8jp04f89kf5mvl0j";
   };