So my idea that by PoBing at home one automatically provides a listening node to the net is completely wrong, right?
Not a listening node unless configured with listen=1 and UPNP-connected via the standard port.
Edit: I configured my local node to listen=1 and ensured that the router was UPNP-enabled. My incoming IP address is 51.148.146.204 and this is what my restarted (old) server getpeerinfo reports:
"addr" : "185.150.190.19:41682",
"inbound" : false,
"height" : 2364810,
"addr" : "185.68.67.37:41682",
"inbound" : false,
"height" : 109603,
"addr" : "144.76.118.44:41682",
"inbound" : false,
"height" : 2364810,
"addr" : "51.148.146.204:41682",
"inbound" : false,
"height" : 2364810,
"addr" : "178.223.10.23:57705",
"inbound" : true,
"height" : 2364810,
"addr" : "178.223.10.23:63870",
"inbound" : true,
"height" : 2364810,
My local node is now listening.
Cheers
Graham