Cannot connect to one specific website

[Fed]

IE's "internet options" in control panel are the same as the internet options within the program, change one and the other is changed I think, not tested.

I still think it's the site.
Would you consider changing your MAC address as a test?

[Geek-9pm]

Just for a test, try these:
http://palms.help9pm.com
http://hawaii.help9pm.com

The first goes to psalms.com which has noting to do with help9pm.com

The second goes to http://www.ee.hawaii.edu
But the address is not masked, so it may not work.

Sort of, kinda like tinyurl

[jason2074]

Both modem and router connections in home network have been unsuccessful in accessing the website for the OP. I don't see any details from the router, computer and operating system yet. Have you tried the winsock and reset hosts file?

[howzer]

Just for a test, try these:
http://palms.help9pm.com
http://hawaii.help9pm.com

The first goes to psalms.com which has noting to do with help9pm.com

The second goes to http://www.ee.hawaii.edu
But the address is not masked, so it may not work.

Sort of, kinda like tinyurl

The first link goes to www.palms.com successfully. The second link times out as usual. What exactly was this operation testing?

Both modem and router connections in home network have been unsuccessful in accessing the website for the OP. I don't see any details from the router, computer and operating system yet. Have you tried the winsock and reset hosts file?

I believe I have covered these in this thread.

[Geek-9pm]

howzer,
The two links I gave are plain HTML redirects.
The first was OK for you, but the second was not OK for you.

 For he nest of us both redirects work.

I am going to do another in a frame and see what happens.

[GlitchPC]

In order to prevent this from getting a little heated...I think we should wait to hear what response howzer gets from the admin of the site in question.

Our attempts to help seem to be a race toward futility.  I know if I was getting nowhere after 6 pages of replies...I might get a little disappointed.  Not only as an OP but, as one who has tried to help, as well.

Let's give it a rest to see what the site owner says...unless someone has had a vision.

[howzer]

IE's "internet options" in control panel are the same as the internet options within the program, change one and the other is changed I think, not tested.

I still think it's the site.
Would you consider changing your MAC address as a test?

Ya at this point I'm going to just wait and see what she has to say. Hopefully new information will arrive tomorrow.

[Geek-9pm]

My DNS does not allw this, but it seems to work elsewhere

http://aloha.help9pm.com

is a redirect masked from the browser. Does it work for you?

[Raptor]

Hawaii website is down for me as well now. Maybe their hardware is just wonky.

[Geek-9pm]

I am mad.  At myself, because I have not been any help at all on this topic and had been steering things in the wrong direction.

The OP is running Windows 7.  It is his own computer and he has access to both the modem and the router.  And one or more other PCs on the network do  not have problem with the web site blocking issue.
Windows 7 does have  filters  to block a single web site and even a subdomain of that site.  Some documents claim it is in the hosts  file. That is true, but apparently more is involved. In addition to the built-in filters inside  Windows 7 there are a number of third party packages that can accomplish the same thing in such a way that the user has no idea what's going on.  This is necessary in a business environment and also for home network owners  that was to control content members of the household are viewing.
I am very sorry for the confusion I have thrown into the subject earlier.  It did not help one bit.  I spent some time looking over the Windows 7 forms and this issue is more widespread than what one would think.  Some users complain that they do about how the trend that filtering on, and others complain that they do about how to turn it off.  In either case, it appears that the Windows 7 web site filter blocker is somewhat difficult to manage.  But it might be that is exactly the way it supposed to be.
Again, my apologies for not contributing anything useful for this thread. This was by dictation. Excuse the mishaps.
EDITS made.

[howzer]

I haven't quite disappeared  , and am continuing to work with the admin. She gave me some clues about the nature of the server, with the fact that its firewall blocks all traffic besides http/https and ping requests. Perhaps my computer is requesting a different type of traffic/page request or some authentication reply. As suggested, I accessed the page with https://128.171.61.34 and should have reached an IIS page (which I was able to). However, the original problem still remains. I hope we can solve this soon... I wonder how I can determine if my computer is trying to do something besides normal http~

[Geek-9pm]

.. firewall blocks all traffic besides http/https and ping requests.

On my laptop running XP and FireFox:
https://128.171.61.34
Gives and error message, certificate is not valid or out of date
...and if I try:
http://128.171.61.34
Times out. (This might mean my DNS is blocking the site.) Or maybe that IP is only for https.

Anyway, now I am thinking there is something odd about the site. But the fact that other machines can get in would suggest it is your OS.

[Raptor]

I haven't quite disappeared  , and am continuing to work with the admin. She gave me some clues about the nature of the server, with the fact that its firewall blocks all traffic besides http/https and ping requests. Perhaps my computer is requesting a different type of traffic/page request or some authentication reply. As suggested, I accessed the page with https://128.171.61.34 and should have reached an IIS page (which I was able to). However, the original problem still remains. I hope we can solve this soon... I wonder how I can determine if my computer is trying to do something besides normal http~

Search for Fiddler2 and have it capture traffic. Analyze and report any odd results.

[howzer]

Ya I just noticed it was .34 rather than .135.

[Raptor]