Trouble connecting to server

We have an Xserve running 10.6.5, and clients running a mix of 10.5.8, 10.6.4 and 10.6.5.
Up until today, all clients were able to connect to the server using the Connect To Server option in the Finder's go menu by typing in afp://server.domain.com. Starting today, a large number of 10.5.8 machines (but NOT all of them) are unable to connect. It just tries for a while and then times out. They are able to connect fine using the server's local IP address.
The affected client machines are able to properly resolve the FQDN to the correct IP using Lookup in Network Utility.
When an affected client machine tries to log in, the AFP log on the server shows the user log in, and then immediately log out.
AFAIK, no changes were made to the server, or our DNS server.
Any ideas?

I also want to point out that upgrading client machines to 10.6.x fixes the issue, but it still doesn't tell me what's really going on, and I feel like it's more of a bandaid than a solution.

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