Why can't my Mac access a particular website?

[beardman]

So you asked your IT and they say no blocked sites. Then it's got to be something in between from your servers at school to where the site is hosted.
Could be a snag somewhere on the internet in between you and them.

Do other people at your university have this issue at all? Ask around. If it's only you having trouble with certain sites, then it would be your system.

One thing I would try if I was in your position is open Network Utilities in Applications/Utilities and click the TraceRoute Tab. Do a traceroute to their site. It might show what is going on. I have actually found the site that was stopping things in a few instances.

I tried the public computers in the library, and they get the same network timeout messages as I do when I connect to the library internet servers and the campus wireless with my MacBook. I think this rules out it being my system's fault.

How do I interpret the results of the traceroute? Here's what I get (I stopped it because I thought it'd go on spitting out asterisks forever):

Traceroute has started ...

traceroute to PhinisheD (141.217.86.18), 64 hops max, 40 byte packets
1 rob-patrons-lib.gw.utoronto.ca (142.150.120.1) 1.707 ms 1.101 ms 0.833 ms
2 murus-gpb.gw.utoronto.ca (128.100.96.2) 118.096 ms 3.047 ms 1.041 ms
3 ut-hub-utoronto-if.gtanet.ca (205.211.94.129) 5.172 ms 0.995 ms 1.036 ms
4 ORION-GTANET-RNE.DIST1-TORO.IP.orion.on.ca (66.97.23.57) 126.669 ms 12.205 ms 12.271 ms
5 66.97.16.154 (66.97.16.154) 1.127 ms 9.389 ms 11.183 ms
6 66.97.17.61 (66.97.17.61) 40.048 ms 130.045 ms 11.441 ms
7 ge-1-3-0x133.aa1.mich.net (192.122.182.153) 7.934 ms 7.811 ms 8.004 ms
8 tenge0-0-0-0x9.aa2.mich.net (198.108.22.185) 39.829 ms tenge0-0-0-0x25.aa2.mich.net (198.108.22.148) 193.600 ms tenge0-0-0-0x9.aa2.mich.net (198.108.22.185) 38.171 ms
9 xe-0-0-0x22.wsu5.mich.net (198.108.23.51) 120.713 ms 20.416 ms 21.094 ms
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11 141.217.154.98 (141.217.154.98) 24.622 ms 22.873 ms 30.967 ms
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