Is there a way to tell if a Monero node is on, even though it is not public facing and behind a router?

Question

I want to setup monerod on a Raspberry Pi and put it behind a router, but I it won't be public facing nor have any forwarded ports. Is there a way to tell if my Raspberry Pi is active with monerod still running? Is there a way to mark my node with some type of alias and look it up in a Monero node database?

Answer 1

Without forwarded ports, no. Unless of course you also owned the node it was syncing from, in which case you could check that other nodes connected peers.