Thank you all for your suggestions. What finally proved to be the problem is
that my ISP does not allow reverse DNS lookups. Thus when I try to connect to
my server, the server tries for 30 seconds to do a reverse DNS lookup on my IP
address, to no avail. I've been trying to convince my ISP to enable reverse DNS
lookups, but they are resisting. So the temporary solution is to make a slew of
entries in the /etc/hosts file on my server (the server checks that file before
attempting a reverse DNS lookup, so if it resolves the IP address there, it
doesn't look any further).
Again, thank you all for your suggestions,
Stewart McCullough
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