diff --git a/lib/packages.js b/lib/packages.js
index 7d1920e202..5db876456f 100644
--- a/lib/packages.js
+++ b/lib/packages.js
@@ -6,10 +6,7 @@ var https = require('https');
 var Future = require('fibers/future');
 var request = require('request');
 
-// XXX make this work with packages.meteor.com. A CNAME record isn't
-// good enough because then our SSL certs are wrong (or maybe we can
-// get this to work somehow else)
-var PACKAGES_URLBASE = 'https://d3fm2vapipm3k9.cloudfront.net';
+var PACKAGES_URLBASE = 'https://packages.meteor.com';
 
 // Under the hood, packages in the library (/package/foo), and user
 // applications, are both Packages -- they are just represented