It was pretty wierd - I was having a really bizarre DNS problem on my laptop this morning. For some reason, I was able to get to any website except http://www.furrygoat.com. What added to the strange behavior was that I could ping it without a problem.

Thinking it was a DNS cache problem, I ran ipconfig.exe /flushdns from the command line, but it still would not resolve in Internet Explorer. I finally ran across this small registry hack to control the amount of time that negative DNS hits are cached to 0 seconds:

You can also use the Registry to control the amount of time that positive entries are kept in the DNS cache. By default, they are kept for 24 hours. To change the default, go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Dnscache\Parameters again and create a DWORD value called MaxCacheEntryTtlLimit. (If it’s already present, just edit the value.) For the value, enter the amount of time you want the entry to remain, in seconds, making sure to use Decimal as the base.

After applying the registry change, I re-ran ipconfig.exe /flushdns and was finally able to get to furrygoat from the laptop.

Wierd.