diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/lsof/lsof_4.89.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/lsof/lsof_4.89.bb
index 0c38e979b6..29245b1ab9 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/lsof/lsof_4.89.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/lsof/lsof_4.89.bb
@@ -6,13 +6,16 @@ SECTION = "devel"
 LICENSE = "BSD"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://00README;beginline=645;endline=679;md5=964df275d26429ba3b39dbb9f205172a"
 
-SRC_URI = "ftp://lsof.itap.purdue.edu/pub/tools/unix/lsof/lsof_${PV}.tar.bz2"
+# Upstream lsof releases are hosted on an ftp server which times out download
+# attempts from hosts for which it can not perform a DNS reverse-lookup (See:
+# https://people.freebsd.org/~abe/ ). http://www.mirrorservice.org seems to be
+# the most commonly used alternative.
+
+SRC_URI = "http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/lsof.itap.purdue.edu/pub/tools/unix/lsof/lsof_${PV}.tar.bz2"
 
 SRC_URI[md5sum] = "1b9cd34f3fb86856a125abbf2be3a386"
 SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "81ac2fc5fdc944793baf41a14002b6deb5a29096b387744e28f8c30a360a3718"
 
-UPSTREAM_CHECK_URI = "http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/lsof.itap.purdue.edu/pub/tools/unix/lsof"
-
 LOCALSRC = "file://${WORKDIR}/lsof_${PV}/lsof_${PV}_src.tar"
 
 S = "${WORKDIR}/lsof_${PV}_src"