resolver: try servers in a random order on each resolution (closes #138)
check / check (push) Failing after 2m8s

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 is now walked in a
random order from rand.Shuffle, chosen anew each time; a server that does
not reply, refuses, or gives an error reply or a referral that leads no
closer is still passed over for the next. When a referral names a zone's
nameservers without their addresses, all of them are now looked up, not
only the first that resolves, so the zone is not given up because one
randomly picked nameserver failed. No test fails if the walk stops
shuffling: which server a live query reached is not observable.

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# Completed Steps
- 2026-10-02: 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: a certificate within the expiry warning period is warned about on
every TLS check, where some checks used to skip it at random (closes #204).
- 2026-10-01: a domain's NS set is its delegation from the parent zone's
@@ -128,5 +130,4 @@ trial run of the finished image: https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/dnswatcher/issues/149
- 1.0 readiness: run it with a real config and read the logs:
https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/dnswatcher/issues/66
- README accuracy sweep: https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/dnswatcher/issues/108
- fixed root server order: https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/dnswatcher/issues/138
- review toward 1.0: https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/dnswatcher/issues/144