Odd Workgroup Manager behavior

I did a search but didn't have any luck finding info... I work in an academic environment and run a couple of Mac servers. On one, we have multiple port/IPs set up... The IPs are in ascending order. (Note that the school's central computing group maintains all DNS configs and assigns IPs; I am not running my own DNS setup.)
server.school.edu
www.server.school.edu
service1.server.school.edu
service2.server.school.edu
When I bring up workgroup manager, I log in as diradmin at server.school.edu, but Workgroup Manager instantly changes the directory display to service1.server.school.edu. And it forces me to create all home directories at afp://service1.server.school.edu.
Any idea why? Is there a file somewhere I can edit to fix this?
Thanks in advance to anybody with wisdom to share here.

You could try to add server.school.edu to your /etc/hosts file. Another alternative is to change the order of the A-records in the DNS so that server.school.edu is listed before the others. If these options don't work, you can always change the url for the home directory manually in WGM.

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