Could a truly random number be generated using pings to pseudo-randomly selected IP addresses?

Question

The question posed came about during a 2nd Year Comp Science lecture while discussing the impossibility of generating numbers in a deterministic computational device.

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Answer 1

It seems to me that true randomness is ineffable - there is no way to know whether a sequence is random, since by definition it can contain anything no matter how improbable. Guaranteeing a particular distribution pattern reduces the randomness. The word "pattern" is a bit of a giveaway.

    I MADE U A RANDOM NUMBER
           BUT I EATED IT