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Do you have anything filtering outgoing packets by source port number?

iptables -L -n

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iptables -L -n[root@server ~]# iptables -L -n
Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination

Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination

Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination

Your first 2 tests are pointing directly at IP's as to where to look for DNS resolution.. No lookup needed to figure what the IP is for the name server you want to use.

The last test is using a hostname for the server. Before dig can use that, it has to resolve what the IP is. Your non-root user apparently doesn't have permission to use the resolver?? Permissions issue though I'm not sure how you did that.

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But I used it correctly before. I am using Directadmin.