Why won't my site load from one computer, but it will another?

Question

Pretty vague title, but basically I can only get "my site" to load from one computer. I've purchased hosting and a domain name, set it all up, and there's nothing there yet, but the default directory browser thing shows up when I go to the url on my work computer, but from my home computer and a virtual machine it doesn't... what should I look at to troubleshoot? Everything else works fine from home, so I wouldn't think it would be a router issue or anything like that.

Thoughts?

UPDATE: It works from my work computer, and a friend of mine's computer at her house, but not on my PC or laptop... I've tried rebooting, unplugging cable modem and router and plugging them back in, dnsflush, turning windows firewall off, and everything i can think of... i don't have any idea what to do now

UPDATE: This is interesting... when I tracert from my computer it stops and gives Request Time Out one hop before getting to the actual web server. When I do the tracert using dnsstuff.com, it makes the hop just fine and shows the web server on there... I don't get it.

Answer 1

DNS can take time to kick in. 36hrs is worst case scenario

Answer 2

Check out: http://www.dnsstuff.com/; you may also try ipconfig /flushdns.

Answer 3

use a bottom up approach to find the problem. First verify the network in this sequence.

1) Check your physical connection is working (duh, should be). Check your arp table for any problems. Better still, just flush it with arp -d *

2) Check if your route is working to the destination. traceroute to the destination. Are there any difference ? Any routers in the middle routing differently ?

3) Check if the transport is working. Check your firewall, intruder detector or any other transport level service to verify you can indeed send a TCP packet on port 80 to your destination.

If all pass, then i am stumped ..

Answer 4

is it hosted locally? maybe your other computer isn't online. is it even turned on?

Answer 5

Try using IE instead of Firefox and see if it makes a difference, or vice versa.