“Dan Kaminsky from IOActive Inc. discovered the flaw, said he hopes the patches will be broad enough that hackers won’t be able to reverse-engineer them.” http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2008/07/09/Experts_discover_major_Internet_flaw/UPI-83691215616576/
What is even more interesting is the collaborative effort that was put into getting patches released for all platforms at the same time. I don’t recall a collaborative effort going so far for anything on the Internet. Check out this link, and note on the sidebar is a way to check if your DNS cache is vulnerable to poisoning.