[Genome] Is the UCSC FTP Server down?

[Hiram Clawson]

Thank you for the report.  Our FTP server was hung up due to
too many connections.  Evidently the back-log of requests from
our outage last week is stressing the system.

--Hiram

Viswanath, Lalitha (NIH/NCI) [C] wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I am encountering error message 
> 
> Error in server response, closing control connection.
> 
> Error in server response, closing control connection.
> 
> When trying to download 
> 
> wget -nv
> ftp://hgdownload.cse.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/hg18/database/cytoBand.txt.gz
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Lalitha