cPanel Updates Down ???

We are trying to update our cpanel version but the cpanel server seems not to respond.

ping httpupdate.cpanel.net returns *** timeout error ***

and when using /scripts/upcp --force, the following errors:

<span class="error" style="cursor:hand;cursor:pointer;" onClick="document.getElementById('cpanel_intern al_error_2').style.display='block';this.style.display='none';">[an error occurred while processing this directive]</span>httpupdate.cpanel.net could not be resolved to an ip adddress, please check your /etc /resolv.conf at /usr/local/cpanel/Cpanel/HttpRequest.pm line 272.
httpupdate.cpanel.net could not be resolved to an ip adddress, please check your /etc/resolv.conf at /u sr/local/cpanel/Cpanel/HttpRequest.pm line 272.
...Done

We have checked and its not a resolver issue as all other sites tested are resolvable.

Anyone else having the same issue?