Server Admin 10.6 managing a 10.5.8 server

I'm hopeful someone can point out my error here.
I've been running the new 10.6 version of Server Admin on my 10.6 Macbook to mange my 10.5.8 server, and for a while everything seemed fine. When I'm accessing the server remotely (i.e. my client is not on the same LAN as the server) then it is working fine. An d initially this was also true when I was on the same LAN.
But in the last couple of days, and I don't think I changed anything on the server or client machine that might have impacted on this, Server Admin is reduced to a snail's pace when I try to connect to my server, but only when on the same LAN. This clearly suggests to me that DNS may be the issue, but I've looked at it again and again and can't spot anything out of the ordinary.
While it's not critical (when I'm on the LAN I can fire up Server Admin 10.5 on the server itself and work directly, but it is really annoying me nonetheless.
Regards
Graham

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