diff --git a/meta-poky/conf/distro/poky.conf b/meta-poky/conf/distro/poky.conf
index b7c926b9c3..6ade4e07c8 100644
--- a/meta-poky/conf/distro/poky.conf
+++ b/meta-poky/conf/distro/poky.conf
@@ -39,16 +39,6 @@ DISTRO_EXTRA_RDEPENDS_append_qemux86-64 = " ${POKYQEMUDEPS}"
 
 TCLIBCAPPEND = ""
 
-PREMIRRORS ??= "\
-bzr://.*/.*   http://downloads.yoctoproject.org/mirror/sources/ \n \
-cvs://.*/.*   http://downloads.yoctoproject.org/mirror/sources/ \n \
-git://.*/.*   http://downloads.yoctoproject.org/mirror/sources/ \n \
-gitsm://.*/.* http://downloads.yoctoproject.org/mirror/sources/ \n \
-hg://.*/.*    http://downloads.yoctoproject.org/mirror/sources/ \n \
-osc://.*/.*   http://downloads.yoctoproject.org/mirror/sources/ \n \
-p4://.*/.*    http://downloads.yoctoproject.org/mirror/sources/ \n \
-svn://.*/.*   http://downloads.yoctoproject.org/mirror/sources/ \n"
-
 SANITY_TESTED_DISTROS ?= " \
             poky-2.7 \n \
             poky-3.0 \n \