Squashed 'chistributed/' changes from 38f7fff..fe6de3b

fe6de3b Fix hello handling

git-subtree-dir: chistributed
git-subtree-split: fe6de3bb55e0d94aa3d5431e4aee4da361da64ba
Merge commit '03a3d80d6fe9e304472d88465334f009537b8e21'
compensates if one node stops