Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig 78.4.in-addr.arpa. NS
Answer
78.4.in-addr.arpa. 4 NS ns1.Level3.net.
78.4.in-addr.arpa. 4 NS ns2.Level3.net.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0