resolver: a reply marked recursion available from a root server's address stops the lookup (closes #300)
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dnswatcher never asks for recursion and a root server never offers it,
so a reply marked recursion available from a root server's address
came from a resolver on the network answering in its place. The first
such reply now stops the lookup at once with the existing "this network
intercepts DNS queries", naming the address, and no other root server
is asked, whether or not that resolver had the name cached. Before, a
cached name was checked against the resolver's second-hand answer.

On such a network dnswatcher and its tests fail with that error, by
design; nothing works around the interception. A live test passes
public resolvers as the root servers and expects the error.

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# Completed Steps
- 2026-10-16: the first reply marked "recursion available" from a root server's
address stops the lookup with "this network intercepts DNS queries", so on a
network that sends DNS to a resolver dnswatcher and its tests fail, by design
(closes #300).
- 2026-10-15: a query its caller's context ends before it is sent records no
reason about the nameserver, and a try the context's deadline cuts short is a
timeout, so a nameserver whose only failures were timeouts is `timeout`, not a