highlight: RFC1918 damage in the DNS system


combination of Microsoft software `features' and misconfigurations essentially causing a slowly paced massive distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack on the root name server system
everyone running windows is living in a glass house wrt DOS attacks, in more ways than one


 compelling example of why software and setups affecting stability of the Internet's infrastructure must be designed with more careful attention to potential effects of software engineering decisions, misimplementations, and misconfigurations on global systemic Internet stability

current state of fielded desktop software poses substantial & increasing burden on, if not threat to, the robustness of the global Internet