WebRTC: Matching up nearest peers

Question

Given a single public IP address (peer A) and a list of many other public IP addresses (a mix of IPv4 and IPv6 addresses), what is the easiest way to match up peer A the IP addr

Answer 1

Install https://github.com/runk/node-maxmind

Download 'GeoLite2-City.mmdb' from: http://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/geoip2/geolite2/

var maxmind = require('maxmind');
var lookup = maxmind.open('./GeoLite2-City.mmdb');

/**/
var peers = [
    '31.193.128.0', // UK
    '23.112.0.0', // USA
    '5.24.0.0', // Turkey
    '196.203.0.0', // Tunisia
    '77.243.64.0' // Malta
];

var peerLocations = {};

peers.forEach(function(peer) {

    var tmp = lookup.get(peer);

    if (!tmp || !tmp.location) {
        throw new Error('Unable to get initial peer location: ' + peer);
    }
    peerLocations[peer] = tmp.location;
});


/**/

var testIp = '84.17.64.0'; // Turkey
// 84.17.64.0   // Turkey
// 37.219.0.0   // Finland
// 5.39.0.0     // France
// 37.75.32.0   // Malta
// 5.2.96.0     // UK
// 15.0.0.0     // USA
// 41.224.0.0   // Tunisia

console.log( findClosestPeer(testIp, 3) );

function findClosestPeer(ip, len) {

    var ipData = lookup.get(ip);
    var distances = [];

    if (ipData && ipData.location) {

        Object.keys(peerLocations).forEach(function(key) {

            var peer = peerLocations[key];
            var distance = getDistanceFromLatLonInKM(ipData.location.latitude, ipData.location.longitude, 
                peer.latitude, peer.longitude);

            distances.push({ip: key, distance: distance});
        });
    }

    // 0 ... 9
    distances.sort(function(a, b) {
        return a.distance - b.distance;
    });

    return len > 1 ? distances.slice(0, len)
        : distances.shift();
}



/* http://stackoverflow.com/a/21279990/605399 */
function getDistanceFromLatLonInKM(lat1, lon1, lat2, lon2) {

    var R = 6371; // Radius of the earth in km

    var dLat = deg2rad(lat2 - lat1);  // deg2rad below
    var dLon = deg2rad(lon2 - lon1); 
    var a = 
        Math.sin(dLat/2) * Math.sin(dLat/2) +
        Math.cos(deg2rad(lat1)) * Math.cos(deg2rad(lat2)) * 
        Math.sin(dLon/2) * Math.sin(dLon/2)
    ;

    var c = 2 * Math.atan2( Math.sqrt(a), Math.sqrt(1 - a) ); 
    var d = R * c; // Distance in km

    return d;
}

function deg2rad(deg) {
    return deg * ( Math.PI / 180 );
}