mx6.alpiq.com has no CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig mx6.alpiq.com. NS
Answer
The response has no answer records.
Authority
alpiq.com. 843 SOA ns-769.awsdns-32.net. awsdns-hostmaster.amazon.com. 1 7200 900 1209600 86400
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0