mx2.mail.rice.edu has no CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig mx2.mail.rice.edu. NS
Answer
The response has no answer records.
Authority
mail.rice.edu. 300 SOA ns1.rice.edu. hostmaster.rice.edu. 2016013130 14400 3600 1200000 3600
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0