Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig spf.linuxpl.com. NS
Answer
spf.linuxpl.com. 5 NS dns.linuxpl.com.
spf.linuxpl.com. 5 NS ns.linuxpl.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0