ns1.rit.edu has no CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig ns1.rit.edu. NS
Answer
The response has no answer records.
Authority
rit.edu. 3600 SOA ns1a.rit.edu. root.rit.edu. 140386515 3600 600 604800 3600
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0