mpls.qwest.net CNAME records

CNAME Canonical name
Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.

Question and response

Question

dig mpls.qwest.net. NS

Answer

mpls.qwest.net. 5 NS authns2.qwest.net. mpls.qwest.net. 5 NS authns1.qwest.net.

Authority

The response has no authority records.

Additional

authns1.qwest.net. 5 A 63.150.72.4 authns2.qwest.net. 5 A 208.44.130.120 authns1.qwest.net. 5 AAAA 2001:428:0:0:0:0:0:5 authns2.qwest.net. 5 AAAA 2001:428:0:0:0:0:0:6 . 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0