Bug#1024830: ERROR: Unable to connect to servers to test latency.

cuboid_06_wavers

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Nov 26, 2022, 2:40:03 AM11/26/22

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Package: speedtest-cli
Version: 2.1.3-2
Severity: important
X-Debbugs-Cc: doczi...@debian.home

Dear Maintainer,

* What led up to the situation?

running speedtest

* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)?

running speedtest

* What was the outcome of this action?

ERROR: Unable to connect to servers to test latency.

* What outcome did you expect instead?

successful run

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 11.5
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-19-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages speedtest-cli depends on:
ii ca-certificates 20210119
ii python3 3.9.2-3
ii python3-pkg-resources 52.0.0-4

speedtest-cli recommends no packages.

speedtest-cli suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

Yves-Alexis Perez

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Jan 26, 2024, 6:00:06 AM1/26/24

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Control: severity -1 serious

On Sat, 26 Nov 2022 08:35:40 +0100 cuboid_06_wavers
<cuboid_0...@icloud.com> wrote:
> Package: speedtest-cli
> Version: 2.1.3-2
> Severity: important
> X-Debbugs-Cc: doczi...@debian.home
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
>    * What led up to the situation?
>
>       running speedtest
>
>    * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
>      ineffective)?
>
>       running speedtest
>
>    * What was the outcome of this action?
>
>       ERROR: Unable to connect to servers to test latency.
>
>    * What outcome did you expect instead?
>
>       successful run

Same thing happens here. As far as I can tell that makes the package pretty
unusable so I guess the severity could be raised.

Regards,
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Yves-Alexis
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Christian Marillat

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Feb 14, 2024, 2:20:05 AM2/14/24

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On 14 févr. 2024 14:44, Paul Wise <pa...@debian.org> wrote:

> On Fri, 26 Jan 2024 11:46:15 +0100 Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:

>> On Sat, 26 Nov 2022 08:35:40 +0100 cuboid_06_wavers wrote:
>> >       running speedtest
>> >
>> >    * What was the outcome of this action?
>> >
>> >       ERROR: Unable to connect to servers to test latency.
>>

>> Same thing happens here. As far as I can tell that makes the package pretty
>> unusable so I guess the severity could be raised.
>

> I'm not able to reproduce this, speedtest-cli works fine for me,
> so lets let it back into testing until it is confirmed really broken.
>
> Could you all paste the output of your speedtests? Mine are below.
>
> Also probably a good idea to try the --secure or --single options.

Still doesn't work for me even with --secure or --single options
also tested on 3 machines

speedtest-cli is also unable to list remote server

,----
| $ speedtest-cli --list
| Retrieving speedtest.net configuration...
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Christian

Christian Marillat

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Feb 14, 2024, 3:30:05 AM2/14/24

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On 14 févr. 2024 16:13, Paul Wise <pa...@debian.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 14 Feb 2024 08:11:41 +0100 Christian Marillat wrote:
>
>> speedtest-cli is also unable to list remote server
>

> Please try to download the lists with curl/wget/browser:
>
> curl http{,s}://{www,c}.speedtest.net/speedtest-servers{,-static}.php

That explain why speedtest-cli doesn't work

,----
| 429 Error - Too Many Requests
|
| Your IP address is making too many requests. We ask that you limit requests to no more than 1 per second.
|
| We make an attempt to be flexible, allowing small bursts in traffic. You have exceeded this threshold however and have been blocked.
|
| Please reduce the speed at which your requests are made and try again after a while. If you feel you have reached this message in error, please contact us at noc @ speedtest.net and reference this error code.
|
| Thank you
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Christian

Christian Marillat

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Feb 14, 2024, 3:30:05 AM2/14/24

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On 14 févr. 2024 16:13, Paul Wise <pa...@debian.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 14 Feb 2024 08:11:41 +0100 Christian Marillat wrote:
>

>> speedtest-cli is also unable to list remote server
>

> Please try to download the lists with curl/wget/browser:
>
> curl http{,s}://{www,c}.speedtest.net/speedtest-servers{,-static}.php

See https://github.com/sivel/speedtest-cli/pull/796

Christian