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

Very simply, since networks obey prescribed rules, the results are not random.

The webcam idea sounds (slightly) reasonable. Linux people often recommend simply using the random noise from a soundcard which has no mic attached.