Socks-net

I'm trying to decide the best way to go about keeping my connection to a particular client alive, in the case that my C&C is disconnected for a prolonged period of time and I lose the lease on the address/port that I had been listening on.  In this case I would need to set up a new listener address in the agent and and unfortunately that machine will be rather far away and difficult to regularly visit physically.  I'll be connecting through a VPN with port-forwarding, and I'm considering setting up a couple clients as direct socks proxies and creating a kinda mini botnet, all connected through same VPN and forwarding ports, and listing them all as listeners to one another.  My hope is that if I come home to find my C&C down I can still go over to one of my other proxies and perhaps forward the their listeners back to my C&C to re-establish connection at a new IP so that I can then add that new IP to the list of listeners.  Is this kind of thing possible or would that proxy need to be a controller to keep the connection alive on it's own?