Connection refused: connect updating https://javadl-esd-secure.oracle.com/update/securitypack.jar

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I haven't seen this one before.  Just started getting it all of a sudden today

Getting this error executing a Java applet. I am running JRE 8u65. Code was compiled against JDK 1.6 source with Netbeans

java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused: connect

network: Checking for update at: https://javadl-esd-secure.oracle.com/update/securitypack.jar
network: Connecting https://javadl-esd-secure.oracle.com/update/securitypack.jar with proxy=DIRECT
network: Connecting http://javadl-esd-secure.oracle.com:443/ with proxy=DIRECT
network: Updating file at: C:\Users\xxxx\AppData\LocalLow\Sun\Java\Deployment\security\securitypack.jar from url: https://javadl-esd-secure.oracle.com/update/securitypack.jar
java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused: connect
 at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
 at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source)
 at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source)
 at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Unknown Source)
 at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection$10.run(Unknown Source)
 at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection$10.run(Unknown Source)
 at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
 at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getChainedException(Unknown Source)
 at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream0(Unknown Source)
 at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.access$200(Unknown Source)
 at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection$9.run(Unknown Source)
 at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection$9.run(Unknown Source)
 at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
 at java.security.AccessController.doPrivilegedWithCombiner(Unknown Source)
 at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(Unknown Source)
 at sun.net.www.protocol.https.HttpsURLConnectionImpl.getInputStream(Unknown Source)
 at com.sun.deploy.util.SecurityBaseline.checkForUpdate(Unknown Source)
 at com.sun.deploy.util.SecurityBaseline.access$100(Unknown Source)
 at com.sun.deploy.util.SecurityBaseline$1.run(Unknown Source)
 at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
Caused by: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused: connect
 at java.net.DualStackPlainSocketImpl.waitForConnect(Native Method)
 at java.net.DualStackPlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(Unknown Source)
 at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.doConnect(Unknown Source)
 at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.connectToAddress(Unknown Source)
 at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.connect(Unknown Source)
 at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect(Unknown Source)
 at java.net.SocksSocketImpl.connect(Unknown Source)
 at java.net.Socket.connect(Unknown Source)
 at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.connect(Unknown Source)
 at sun.net.NetworkClient.doConnect(Unknown Source)
 at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.openServer(Unknown Source)
 at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.openServer(Unknown Source)
 at sun.net.www.protocol.https.HttpsClient.<init>(Unknown Source)
 at sun.net.www.protocol.https.HttpsClient.New(Unknown Source)
 at sun.net.www.protocol.https.AbstractDelegateHttpsURLConnection.getNewHttpClient(Unknown Source)
 at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.plainConnect0(Unknown Source)
 at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection$6.run(Unknown Source)
 at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection$6.run(Unknown Source)
 at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
 at java.security.AccessController.doPrivilegedWithCombiner(Unknown Source)
 at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.plainConnect(Unknown Source)
 at sun.net.www.protocol.https.AbstractDelegateHttpsURLConnection.connect(Unknown Source)
 at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream0(Unknown Source)
 at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.access$200(Unknown Source)
 at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection$9.run(Unknown Source)
 at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection$9.run(Unknown Source)
 at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
 at java.security.AccessController.doPrivilegedWithCombiner(Unknown Source)
 at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(Unknown Source)
 at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getHeaderField(Unknown Source)
 at java.net.HttpURLConnection.getHeaderFieldDate(Unknown Source)
 at java.net.URLConnection.getLastModified(Unknown Source)
 at sun.net.www.protocol.https.HttpsURLConnectionImpl.getLastModified(Unknown Source)