resolver: try servers in a random order on each resolution (closes #138)
check / check (push) Failing after 2m19s

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: a server that does not reply, or refuses, is
passed over for the next; any other reply, even a SERVFAIL, is used.
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: when none of a configured name's nameservers answered, the port
state saved for its addresses is kept, not removed (closes #193).
- 2026-10-01: `ResolveIPAddresses` returns an error, not no addresses, when no
@@ -122,5 +124,4 @@ 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