diff --git a/benchmarks/siege/Makefile b/benchmarks/siege/Makefile
index 1d94a1b76eeb..ebadb2de7e09 100644
--- a/benchmarks/siege/Makefile
+++ b/benchmarks/siege/Makefile
@@ -6,9 +6,10 @@
 #
 
 PORTNAME=	siege
-PORTVERSION=	2.55
+PORTVERSION=	2.56
 CATEGORIES=	benchmarks
-MASTER_SITES=	ftp://sid.joedog.org/pub/siege/
+MASTER_SITES=	ftp://sid.joedog.org/pub/siege/ \
+		http://www.cus.org.uk/~dom/distfiles/siege/
 
 MAINTAINER=	d.marks@student.umist.ac.uk
 
diff --git a/benchmarks/siege/distinfo b/benchmarks/siege/distinfo
index f55a54f77835..5ac20fc7f681 100644
--- a/benchmarks/siege/distinfo
+++ b/benchmarks/siege/distinfo
@@ -1 +1 @@
-MD5 (siege-2.55.tar.gz) = 49eeb90b40bdb9ca3d0f9415ec790c8b
+MD5 (siege-2.56.tar.gz) = 65b309582e95f334be70b62705135457