Ross Perez of Flipside.com sends along this statement regarding the recent authentication problems that have plagued TRIBES 2 and Half-Life gamers. His explanation seems to suggest that the workaround recommended for Half-Life users (story) should work for TRIBES 2 gamers as well. Here's what he has to say:

Several major domain name and network changes were made over the past 24 hours that caused unanticipated problems for the online activities of several major CD-ROM games. We apologize for any inconvenience and/or service disruptions that these changes have caused. Once the propagation of the network changes have been completed, the titles affected will return to normal. We estimate that for most users this will occur in the next 24 hours depending on how quickly the DNS changes propagate. For ISP's that update their DNS servers less frequently it could take a little longer.