Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig 254.194.in-addr.arpa. NS
Answer
254.194.in-addr.arpa. 3 NS ns1.renater.fr.
254.194.in-addr.arpa. 3 NS ns2.renater.fr.
254.194.in-addr.arpa. 3 NS ns2.nic.fr.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
ns1.renater.fr. 3 A 193.49.159.2
ns2.renater.fr. 3 A 193.49.159.9
ns1.renater.fr. 3 AAAA 2001:660:3001:4002:0:0:0:2
ns2.renater.fr. 3 AAAA 2001:660:3001:4002:0:0:0:9
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0