diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 80c3aaedc..eda23d491 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -1217,9 +1217,9 @@
             Sonar's mailing lists: http://www.mojohaus.org/sonar-maven-plugin/mail-lists.html-->
             <excludedLink>https://nemo.sonarqube.org/project/index/com.puppycrawl.tools:checkstyle</excludedLink>
             <!-- skip validating SNAPSHOTs on sourceforge when ${projectVersion} is SNAPSHOT-->
-            <excludedLink>http://iweb.dl.sourceforge.net/project/checkstyle/checkstyle/*-SNAPSHOT/checkstyle-*-SNAPSHOT-all.jar</excludedLink>
+            <excludedLink>http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/checkstyle/checkstyle/*-SNAPSHOT/checkstyle-*-SNAPSHOT-all.jar</excludedLink>
             <!-- skip validating released "-all" jar on sourceforge as it is uploaded after site generation-->
-            <excludedLink>http://iweb.dl.sourceforge.net/project/checkstyle/checkstyle/*/checkstyle-*-all.jar</excludedLink>
+            <excludedLink>http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/checkstyle/checkstyle/*/checkstyle-*-all.jar</excludedLink>
             <!-- Excluded due to linkcheck's issue #22: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MLINKCHECK-22-->
             <excludedLink>https://twitter.com/checkstyle_java/</excludedLink>
             <!-- Excluded due to linkcheck's issue #23: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MLINKCHECK-23-->