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In case that it's lost there is obviously nothing left to ask if it's gone. The simplest way might be to perform some xmlrpc call like getUri or similar and see if there is a reply.

The negative behavior (i.e. not reply) would be the same that a node sees that tries to interact with a non-existing master.

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