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

If you want commodity hardware, your sound card should pretty much do it. Just turn up the volume on an analog input and you have a cheap white noise source. Cheap randomness without the need for a network.