resolver: try servers in a random order on each resolution (closes #138)
check / check (push) Failing after 2m15s

Every resolution walked the root servers in a fixed order, so
a.root-servers.net got every first query and its timeouts were paid on
every lookup. Each list of servers the resolver walks, the root servers
and the nameservers of each zone below them, is now walked in a random
order from the standard library's rand.Shuffle, chosen anew each time.
Failover is unchanged: after a failure the next server is tried, and
the walk fails only when every server has. The shuffle is passed in, so
the tests check the order with a seeded source; which server a live
query reached is not observable, so no test fails if the walk stops
shuffling.

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# Completed Steps
- 2026-10-01: the resolver tries root servers, and every other server list it
walks, in a random order each time, not always from the top (closes #138).
- 2026-10-01: `ResolveIPAddresses` returns an error, not no addresses, when no
nameserver of the name's zone answered (closes #190).
- 2026-10-01: `make fmt` and `make fmt-check` cover Markdown with prettier, run
@@ -120,5 +122,4 @@ trial run of the finished image: https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/dnswatcher/issues/149
- README accuracy sweep: https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/dnswatcher/issues/108
- README sections required by policy:
https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/dnswatcher/issues/173
- fixed root server order: https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/dnswatcher/issues/138
- review toward 1.0: https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/dnswatcher/issues/144