NIS+ changing slave to master

[Jerome D'silva]

Hi,
I have NIS+ setup on L2000 HPUX 11.0 machines. One of the server is configured as the master and the other one as slave ( replica ) I have some dobuts which I am jotting it down here. Pl. clarify

1. If the master goes down , does the slave act as a master?

2. During this period, does the slave accept any updations on the NIS+ database ( ex:- password change)

3. Once the master comes up, does it automatically become master and takes the updations from the slave?

I am asking these questions as I have this problem in my setup.

By mistake, the users have changed the password on the replica machine and this is not reflected on the master server. How do I sync this password information from the slave to the master?

Thanks
Jerome