Long hangs when connecting to server

This has been a long-standing annoyance...
We have an Xserve with 10.5 in the office.
When I click on the "Network" icon in the sidebar on my Mac, it almost
instantly displays a list of all machines on the nework.
I then double click the Xserve's icon and the wait begins: first the
beach ball followed after a while by a message window "Looking up
server.local...".
That continues for more than a whole minute until I'm prompted for my
password (it's stored in the keychain) and finally a window pops up
listing all the available shared folders/volumes on the server.
Double-clicking any of them mounts it immediately on my Mac.
Now I keep aliases for the volumes I need to mount regularly. One of
them connects with only a short delay of around 15 secs and no password
prompts.
However a new alias I created today takes *several minutes* to mount the
respective volume and that just doesn't seem right.
What could possible cause these varied delays?
Why does it do the "looking up" thing if the server can be seen in the
network pane?
Martin

That's consistent with a DNS error and DNS timeouts (or maybe network or routing errors), and the use of the .local mDNS Bonjour domain implies no DNS is configured, and Mac OS X Server expects to have DNS. Put another way, set up DNS services, and get out of the .local domain. [Here's an explanation of configuring DNS services|http://labs.hoffmanlabs.com/node/1436]

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