Strange DNS issues

When I'm in the office, I have intermittent DNS outages for any length of time (sometimes several minutes) that seem to occur randomly. This problem does not occur in any other network, but it also does not occur for any other computer on the office network.
What I so far have been able to find is ....
- Existing connections do not drop
- It applies to all protocols
Thus, I figured it is probably a DNS problem
- It is an instant fail, not a time-out
- /usr/bin/dig & nslookup seems unaffected by it, returning results
- Ping to the DHCP assigned servers works
- There are no entries in /var/log/system.log
- A cache flush makes no difference
- Changing to the Google DNS servers resolves the issue, but means I can't use local office servers
Everything points at the combination of my laptop and the office DNS servers being the issue. However, it is intermittent and it does not apply to any other computers. I've asked my IT team, but they just shrug and go 'I dont know anything about Macs' and suggest I add all office servers to /etc/hosts. Sigh.
Any help would be much appreciated.

Can you please provide additional info about your office's environment?
I specialize in OS X and Windows integration.
What types of DNS servers are your company running? If their DNS is failing to communicate with your computer then there would be an error in your log files, if the issue was on their end, they would see an error in their log files.
Are you connecting to file shares? Software services?
Is your computer part of a directory, LDAP?

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