diff --git a/doc/Changelog b/doc/Changelog
index d087c7eef..f29912256 100644
--- a/doc/Changelog
+++ b/doc/Changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+4 August 2026: Wouter
+	- Fix to set makedist.sh to not wget config.sub and
+	  config.guess from git repo. The fetch times out, and the
+	  version from libtoolize is much more recent now than
+	  that it was when the wget was added.
+
 31 July 2026: Wouter
 	- For #1483: The failure reason when an NSEC NXDOMAIN is
 	  encountered when looking for an insecure delegation, is
diff --git a/makedist.sh b/makedist.sh
index ec9021c2c..07b097738 100755
--- a/makedist.sh
+++ b/makedist.sh
@@ -608,6 +608,8 @@ rm -rf .git .travis.yml .gitattributes .github .gitignore || error_cleanup "Fail
 info "Adding libtool utils (libtoolize)."
 libtoolize -c --install || libtoolize -c || error_cleanup "Libtoolize failed."
 
+# Turn this off, if the git repo times out for lookups.
+if test "updateconfigsub" = "false"; then
 # https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/config_002eguess.html
 info "Updating config.guess and config.sub"
 wget -O config.guess 'https://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=config.git;a=blob_plain;f=config.guess;hb=HEAD'
@@ -621,6 +623,7 @@ if [ `uname -s | grep -i -c darwin` -ne 0 ]; then
         xattr -d com.apple.quarantine config.sub
     fi
 fi
+fi
 
 info "Building configure script (autoreconf)."
 autoreconf -f || error_cleanup "Autoconf failed."