Thanks for the replies. The node has now finished downloading the block chain, and when I did a quick bitcoind getinfo, I realized that I had only 26 connections..
{
"version" : 90400,
"protocolversion" : 70002,
"walletversion" : 60000,
"balance" : 0.00000000,
"blocks" : 342771,
"timeoffset" : -1,
"connections" : 26,
"proxy" : "",
"difficulty" : 44455415962.34380341,
"testnet" : false,
"keypoololdest" : 1423330698,
"keypoolsize" : 101,
"paytxfee" : 0.00000000,
"relayfee" : 0.00001000,
"errors" : ""
}