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Workgroup Manager connection dead

One of our Xserves will not allow Workgroup Manager to connect either locally or remotely. The error when connecting states something like `service is unavailable` and never even attempts to authenticate. Nothing displays in the server's system.log.

A port scan reveals that port 625 is not available, which I believe is what WGM uses based on a tcpdump of a working WGM connection.

No firewall is running.

I can't seem to figure out what daemon listens on 625. The servermgrd and server_settingsd (I am not in front of it, so I don't remember the exact names.) only seem to listen on 660 and seem to only be used by Server Status or possibly Server Settings, which do work.

top shows DirectoryService as using cpu as WGM attempts to login on a working WGM connection. I am wondering if WGM is talking directly to DirectoryService or if it is channeled through a separate daemon? If it is talking directly, then why is my DirectoryService not listening on 625? I have kill -9ed DirectoryService and have done a complete reboot as well.

If it is DirectoryService related, I am thinking of trashing /var/db/SystemConfiguration/preferences.xml and resetting network and Directory Access settings from scratch. The problem server is one of several netinfo children binding using broadcast to a master which is also running PasswordServer (A netinfo clone is also available for directory service failover, though not passwords). The other netinfo children servers are fine, and the configuration seems to be the same. The WGM problems on this one server began in 10.2.4 and continue in 10.2.5.

Any insight would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Kyle Crawford
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