Is chroot really necessary?

[Bush, Stephen]

Hi,

I've been trying to get bind working correctly in a chrooted environment and
tried just about every way, from the simple to the insane!  Does anyone
think it is absolutely essential to run bind chrooted, or is this a
technique directed to the Unix past rather than the present?  My dns servers
are dedicated to doing that - no other web services are running.

Stephen