diff --git a/IPython/frontend/html/notebook/notebook.py b/IPython/frontend/html/notebook/notebook.py
index d89fa2d..1692ee9 100644
--- a/IPython/frontend/html/notebook/notebook.py
+++ b/IPython/frontend/html/notebook/notebook.py
@@ -265,6 +265,8 @@ def main():
http_server = httpserver.HTTPServer(application)
http_server.listen(options.options.port)
print "IPython Notebook running at: http://127.0.0.1:8888"
+ print "The github master of tornado is required to run this server:"
+ print " https://github.com/facebook/tornado/tree/master/tornado"
ioloop.IOLoop.instance().start()