CSL: Anonymous FTP FAQ

The Duke Computer Science Department provides anonymous FTP service to allow:

The researchers and staff to share their work with the Internet Community;
Anonymous users limited upload capability to transfer files to their colleagues in this department.

Any other uses of this facility, such as unauthorized sharing of copyrighted materials, are strictly forbidden.

Anonymous FTP services should be accessed via the address ftp.cs.duke.edu.
Anonymous users can deposit files in /pub/incoming only.
To prevent unauthorized use, anonymous users will not be able to list or read files in this directory.

/pub/incoming is not readable by department users.
Deposited files are transferred to /usr/project/xtmp/incoming-ftp, and then can be accessed by local accounts only.
Files will be transfered over from the pub directory once every hour.
These files are subject to the usual temp-filesystem policies, and will be automatically deleted after 30 days.
/usr/project/xtmp/incoming-ftp is not listable; you will need to know the exact filenames of any uploaded files that you need to access.
Since it is possible that the upload of a file might still be in progress when the local copy is executed, it's possible for a file to be truncated; therefore, it's also a good idea to know and verify the size of any uploaded files, or, use checksums.