[SOLVED] NTP-Server & Firewall port settings:

I made the firewall settings such that the ntp service is using the UDP protocol for both IN & OUT & now I get the following which is certainly an improvement, as at least now the delay, offset & jitter numbers look to be behaving as they should (instead of all being zero). But now I've got this:

NTP synchronized: no
 RTC in local TZ: no

when I use my time alias - the command follows:

alias time='timedatectl status && ntpq -c lpeer'

Here is the output from the above alias:

[handy@jarmano ~]$ time
      Local time: Fri 2013-03-08 19:28:45 EST
  Universal time: Fri 2013-03-08 08:28:45 UTC
        RTC time: Fri 2013-03-08 08:28:46
        Timezone: Australia/Sydney (EST, +1100)
     NTP enabled: yes
NTP synchronized: no
 RTC in local TZ: no
      DST active: yes
 Last DST change: DST began at
                  Sun 2012-10-07 01:59:59 EST
                  Sun 2012-10-07 03:00:00 EST
 Next DST change: DST ends (the clock jumps one hour backwards) at
                  Sun 2013-04-07 02:59:59 EST
                  Sun 2013-04-07 02:00:00 EST
     remote           refid      st t when poll reach   delay   offset  jitter
==============================================================================
*192.168.1.15    83.170.1.42      3 u   52   64    1    0.465    7.278   6.586

I still have the 90 second delay on boot too...