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From:
Kirill A. Korinsky <kirill@korins.ky>
Subject:
Re: NEW: benchmarks/librespeed-cli
To:
Christoph Liebender <christoph@liebender.dev>
Cc:
ports@openbsd.org
Date:
Sat, 23 May 2026 18:52:29 +0200

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On Tue, 19 May 2026 23:15:17 +0200,
Christoph Liebender <christoph@liebender.dev> wrote:
> 
> Hello ports@,
> 
> happy 7.9 release everyone. To make sure that everybody on -current can
> choose to determine their ISPs connection speed using libre servers, it
> is probably wise to provide librespeed-cli as an alternative to ookla's
> speedtest-cli:
> 
> Information for inst:librespeed-cli-1.0.13
> 
> Comment:
> command line client for LibreSpeed
> 
> Description:
> Don't have a GUI but want to use LibreSpeed servers to test your Internet
> speed? librespeed-cli is a command line interface for LibreSpeed speed test
> backends, written in Go.
> 
> Features:
> 	- Ping, Jitter, Download, Upload
> 	- IP address & ISP Information
> 	- Result sharing (telemetry) [optional]
> 	- Test with mutliple servers in a single run
> 	- Use your own server list or telemetry endpoints
> 
> Maintainer: The OpenBSD ports mailing-list <ports@openbsd.org>
> 
> WWW: https://librespeed.org
> 
> ok to import?

Few feedbacks:

1. Some of their servers' DNS are missconfigured:

~ $ host uk1.backend.librespeed.org 1.1.1.1 
Using domain server:
Name: 1.1.1.1
Address: 1.1.1.1#53
Aliases: 

uk1.backend.librespeed.org has address 37.61.238.196
Host uk1.backend.librespeed.org not found: 2(SERVFAIL)
Host uk1.backend.librespeed.org not found: 2(SERVFAIL)
~ $ host za1.backend.librespeed.org 1.1.1.1 
Using domain server:
Name: 1.1.1.1
Address: 1.1.1.1#53
Aliases: 

za1.backend.librespeed.org has address 160.119.254.207
Host za1.backend.librespeed.org not found: 2(SERVFAIL)
Host za1.backend.librespeed.org not found: 2(SERVFAIL)
~ $

2. It lies about speed at least where I am right now:

$ librespeed-cli
Retrieving server list from https://librespeed.org/backend-servers/servers.php
Selecting the fastest server based on ping
Selected server: Poznan, Poland (INEA) [speedtest.kamilszczepanski.com]
Sponsored by: Kamil Szczepa?ski @ https://kamilszczepanski.com
You're testing from: XXX - Unknown ISP
Ping: 24.18 ms  Jitter: 4.08 ms
Download rate:  99.47 Mbps
Upload rate:    182.29 Mbps

but here 1Gbps / 50mbps Kabel connection, so, 200 Mbps upload looks
impossible.

Anyway portwise reads good.

-- 
wbr, Kirill