Binding A Socket Inside a Thread (MFC)

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Hello everyone,
This is only my second instance at working with Sockets, I apologize in advance as my knowledge on the matter is clearly limited. Here's what I'm stuck on:

I have a Dialog box A. Dialog A has a button which opens Dialog Box B.
It contains two private variables:

DialogB *receive;
CWnd *t_pParent;

void CDialogA::OnButton1() 
{
	// TODO: Add your control notification handler code here
     receive->Create(_T("STATIC"), NULL, WS_CHILD | WS_VISIBLE,CRect(0, 0, 20, 20),                           t_pParent, 1234);
     receive->ShowWindow(SW_SHOW);
}

Create does this:

BOOL DialogB::Create(LPCTSTR lpszClassName, LPCTSTR lpszWindowName, DWORD dwStyle, const RECT& rect, CWnd* pParentWnd, UINT nID, CCreateContext* pContext)
{
    // TODO: Add your specialized code here and/or call the base class

    return CDialog::Create(IDD, pParentWnd);
}

DialogB also contains all of the required IPs and port assignments required for the next step.

Is also has a button with runs the following code:

void DialogB::OnButton1()
{ 
    WORD SockVersionRequested;
    WSADATA wsa_Data;
 
	// Check if socket library initialization was completed successful. 
	SockVersionRequested = MAKEWORD(1, 1);
	if(WSAStartup(SockVersionRequested, &wsa_Data) == 0)
	{
			// Create an UDP socket (SOCK_DGRAM)
		socket_fd = socket(PF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, IPPROTO_UDP);

		if(socket_fd > 0)
		{
			// SBC!
			sender_adr.sin_family = AF_INET;
			sender_adr.sin_addr.s_addr = htonl(ip_sender);
			sender_adr.sin_port = htons(port_sender);

			// Display!
			receiver_adr.sin_family = AF_INET;
			receiver_adr.sin_addr.s_addr = htonl(ip_receiver);
			receiver_adr.sin_port = htons(port_receiver);

			// Bind the UDP socket to the port of receiver.
                        if(bind(socket_fd, (struct sockaddr *)&receiver_adr,sizeof(struct sockaddr_in)) == -1) 
			{
				closesocket(socket_fd);
				socket_fd = 0;
			}
			
			int sz;
	                int recv_data = 0;
	                char data_buffer[1024];
                        sz = sizeof(sockaddr_in);
                        recv_data = 0;
			recv_data = recvfrom(socket_fd, data_buffer, 1024, 0, (struct sockaddr *)&sender_adr, &sz);
			
		}
	}
}

This code is being run on a laptop on a LAN network connected to an FPGA transmitting a gretting message broadcast once every 5 seconds.

In this case however it is unable to receive and gets stuck on recvfrom(),however I have also run the above code from DialogA and been able to properly receive the greeting message. This is how I know that the issue above comes from the fact that DialogB is not the main thread of the application.

Does anyone know how a way for me to properly receive the greeting from Dialog B?
I'll check back in a bit and see if more information on the issue is required.
Thanks!