fail2ban install issue

[Donald Wheeler]

Hi,
I have read good things about fail2ban, and I would love to install  it!
I am sorry to trouble you if I am doing something dumb.
My server is freebsd-9.1-release, I've updated my ports tree.
I get this error when I go to install from ports:
root at jupiter:/usr/ports/security/py-fail2ban # uname -aFreeBSD jupiter.my.domain 9.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE #0 r243826: Tue Dec  4 06:55:39 UTC 2012     root at obrian.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386root at jupiter:/usr/ports/security/py-fail2ban # make install clean===>  License GPLv2 accepted by the user===>   py27-fail2ban-0.8.8_1 depends on file: /usr/local/sbin/pkg - found=> fail2ban-fail2ban-0.8.8-0-g51a3be2.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/.=> Attempting to fetch https://github.com/fail2ban/fail2ban/tarball/0.8.8/fail2ban-fail2ban-0.8.8-0-g51a3be2.tar.gzInitializing download: https://github.com/fail2ban/fail2ban/tarball/0.8.8/fail2ban-fail2ban-0.8.8-0-g51a3be2.tar.gzToo many redirects.
=> Attempting to fetch ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/fail2ban-fail2ban-0.8.8-0-g51a3be2.tar.gzInitializing download: ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/fail2ban-fail2ban-0.8.8-0-g51a3be2.tar.gzFile not found.
=> Couldn't fetch it - please try to retrieve this=> port manually into /usr/ports/distfiles/ and try again.*** [do-fetch] Error code 1
Stop in /usr/ports/security/py-fail2ban.root at jupiter:/usr/ports/security/py-fail2ban #
If you could point me in the right direction, I would be grateful!
Regards,Don Wheeler