Hmm. I checked on both dreamhack.afunamatata.com and hack.dreamwidth.net and ps auxww doesn't show a gearmand running as dh-anarres, which means it might not start properly. What happens if you run

~/dw/bin/gearmand -p 17096

instead? (You may need to ^C to terminate it, if it doesn't terminate of its own accord.)