I am having trouble updating VO at this moment... unable to connect to either update1 or update2 servers. Was still working 24 hours ago, so I am guessing either the update servers are down, or something crazy is going on with my ISP?!?

Anybody can confirm for me?

Edit: BTW, I have tried disabling firewall completely, and all the usual stuff. Restart router, restart PC, etc.

Seems to be working now

Possible there was some momentary routing hiccup in between you and the update servers.

update1 isn't responding for me either. update2 works

Update1 is currently down due to a disk failure, someone is working on it. But "Update2" should work fine for everyone, it round-robins between a couple of machines on different internet connections.