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

YouTube shows a device in action: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7n8LNxGbZbs

Random is, if nobody can predict the next state.