Can't search the forums

Does anyone have problems searching the forums? Every time I hit the search button it just sits there then eventually times out with this error.  I realize this is something on my side.  I can search other forum sites, well except for the stardock forum site it does the same thing. I'm using vista and it doesn't matter what browser I'm using. Thanks for the help.

There was an error accessing the search service.

System.Net.WebException: Unable to connect to the remote server ---> System.Net.Sockets.SocketException: A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond 64.86.95.16:80
at System.Net.Sockets.Socket.DoConnect(EndPoint endPointSnapshot, SocketAddress socketAddress)
at System.Net.Sockets.Socket.InternalConnect(EndPoint remoteEP)
at System.Net.ServicePoint.ConnectSocketInternal(Boolean connectFailure, Socket s4, Socket s6, Socket& socket, IPAddress& address, ConnectSocketState state, IAsyncResult asyncResult, Int32 timeout, Exception& exception)
--- End of inner exception stack trace ---
at System.Net.HttpWebRequest.GetRequestStream()
at System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol.Invoke(String methodName, Object[] parameters)
at MSNSearch.MSNSearchService.Search(SearchRequest Request)
at livesearch.InitSearch()