diff --git a/ez_setup.py b/ez_setup.py
index 4789e37ae2..fe3983fef0 100644
--- a/ez_setup.py
+++ b/ez_setup.py
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ the appropriate options to ``use_setuptools()``.
 This file can also be run as a script to install or upgrade setuptools.
 """
 import sys
-DEFAULT_VERSION = "0.6a9"
+DEFAULT_VERSION = "0.6a10"
 DEFAULT_URL     = "http://cheeseshop.python.org/packages/%s/s/setuptools/" % sys.version[:3]
 
 md5_data = {
@@ -22,6 +22,10 @@ md5_data = {
     'setuptools-0.5a13-py2.4.egg': 'ede4be600e3890e06d4ee5e0148e092a',
     'setuptools-0.6a1-py2.3.egg': 'ee819a13b924d9696b0d6ca6d1c5833d',
     'setuptools-0.6a1-py2.4.egg': '8256b5f1cd9e348ea6877b5ddd56257d',
+    'setuptools-0.6a10-py2.3.egg': '162d8357f1aff2b0349c6c247ee62987',
+    'setuptools-0.6a10-py2.4.egg': '803a2d8db501c1ac3b5b6fb4e907f788',
+    'setuptools-0.6a10dev_r42346-py2.3.egg': 'a7899272cfceb6aa60094ae8928b8077',
+    'setuptools-0.6a10dev_r42346-py2.4.egg': '5d42a64adca9aedb409f83ecf22156a5',
     'setuptools-0.6a2-py2.3.egg': 'b98da449da411267c37a738f0ab625ba',
     'setuptools-0.6a2-py2.4.egg': 'be5b88bc30aed63fdefd2683be135c3b',
     'setuptools-0.6a3-py2.3.egg': 'ee0e325de78f23aab79d33106dc2a8c8',
@@ -123,8 +127,14 @@ help).  I will attempt to download it for you (from
 %s), but
 you may need to enable firewall access for this script first.
 I will start the download in %d seconds.
+
+(Note: if this machine does not have network access, please obtain the file
+
+   %s
+
+and place it in this directory before rerunning this script.)
 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------""",
-                    version, download_base, delay
+                    version, download_base, delay, url
                 ); from time import sleep; sleep(delay)
             log.warn("Downloading %s", url)
             src = urllib2.urlopen(url)