10.4 machines freeze at login

This morning all machines with 10.4.X on them in the high school freeze at login to the network, you can login locally fine. Any Leopard machines can login as usual. Anyone have any idea why the 10.4 machines which worked fine yesterday are having a problem today?
When I looked in server log I found this multiple times... but I have no idea how to fix.
Sep 9 09:06:51 Xserve servermgrd: servermgr_dns: no hostname set and unable to detect via DNS, services may not function properly - use changeip to repair
Any of these make sense to anyone?
Thank you!
Patty

Hi Mitzi,
You might see some helpful information in these links that I found:
[Here|http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=2094827]
[or Here|http://forums.macnn.com/92/networking/308109/mac-os-x-10-4-server>
I'm not a server guru, but I'm sure someone else around here is.

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