Based on the help for another similar looking issue, I tried hitting manually adding the following to /etc/hosts so apt-get could work:
93.93.128.193 raspbian.raspberrypi.org
46.235.227.11 archive.raspberrypi.org
173.209.34.162 raspbian.mirror.colo-serv.net
Note : I just saw RamSet's post as I was writing this. I'll try his suggestion first 