what is a honey pot??

Honey pots are as follows.... a server that is configured to detect a intruder by mirroring a real production system. It appears as an ordinary server doing work,but all data an transactions are 'phony' located either in or just outside the firewall, the honey pot is used to learn about an intruders techniques and to learn about which parts of the system are vunerable.

there is something you use also with a honey pot trap its called a honey net its a network containing honey pots a virtual honeynet resides in a single server but pretends to be a whole server

i have also found out there are two types of honey pot

production honeypots- these are easy to use and capture only limited infothey are mainly used by companys and corparations

research honeypots- these are complex to deploy and maintain these capture alot of info and are mainly used by reasearch companies,military or goverment organisations